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This section describes how to deploy an the appliances in a Abiquo distributed scalable environment. |
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This document describes the new distributed scalable environment with a separate sdatanode server. |
Required appliances
For a distributed deployment, you will need at least the Abiquo appliances below:
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To deploy a distributed environment, you will need to deploy at least one server, one remote services, one V2V appliance, and one datanode.
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To plan for your install, you can write IP addresses and other values on the Distributed environment worksheet. For an example, see Distributed environment worksheet example. |
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Server
The server appliance contains the Abiquo UI, API, and Events servers.
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Remote Services | 36638/tcp | Watchtower |
Datanode services | 36638/tcp | Watchtower |
Watchtower | 7000/tcp | Emmett (One of the Abiquo monitoring services) |
KairosDB | 9042/tcp | Cassandra |
9160/tcp | Cassandra | |
Watchtower | 8080/tcp | Kairos DB |
3306/tcp | Database |
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Configure other firewalls
Additionally open the following ports on the NFS server and hypervisors.
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Allow ICMP You must allow ICMP between all components of the Abiquo platform, including hypervisors. |
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Post-OVA install steps
After you install the OVAs, do the configuration described on this page:
Post-OVA configuration for Distributed scalable
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Browser requirements
Abiquo UI requires a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768 for productive work.
It is based on HTML5 so browsers must support these HTML5 features: Forms block, Drag and drop.
The Abiquo UI is optimized for use with Firefox and Chrome.
Worksheets
Distributed environment worksheet
Distributed environment worksheet example
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Next steps
For a quick introduction to the platform, do the Abiquo quick tutorial
After that, to present the platform to others, try the Abiquo quick walkthrough of private cloud
To read more details about the platform, see Get started
For more complete user manuals, see Abiquo cloud guides
To get started with the Abiquo API, see The Abiquo API and, in particular, Get started with the Abiquo API