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1. Download the server OVA file and launch it.

2. Enter the standard parameters, which are as follows:

   1. Friendly hostname, e.g. server-ova, which must be a valid Linux hostname

   2. Management interface IPv4 Address, e.g. 10.60.10.100, which should be a static network configuration

   3. Management interface IPv4 Netmask, e.g. 255.255.255.0

   4. Default Gateway, e.g. 10.60.10.1

   5. Space separated DNS Server list, e.g. 10.60.10.1

   6. Space separated NTP Server list, e.g. 10.60.10.1, which is required for features that depend on clock synchronization

3. Enter the API/UI server parameters

   1. Abiquo API server FQDN, e.g. server-ova.abiquo.com

      1. This FQDN must be resolvable from customer premises for SSL and the Appliance manager to work properly

   2. Remote Services IP, e.g. 10.60.10.100

   3. Watchtower IP, e.g. 10.60.10.102

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Datanode

We will deploy a single datanode server to form a cluster of one node. Later, you can easily deploy more nodes and add them to the cluster.

1. Download the datanode OVA file and launch it.

2. Enter the standard parameters for the datanode server. The description of the parameters is the same as above

   1. Friendly hostname, e.g. datanode-ova, which must be a valid Linux hostname

   2. Management interface IPv4 Address, e.g. 10.60.10.185, which should be a static network configuration

3. Enter the datanode server parameters

   1. Services cluster IPs, e.g. 10.60.10.185, which is the IP of this server because the cluster will only have one node

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Post install steps

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It seems better to install both the servers before doing these steps, so that if anything tries to connect to the DB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc, then it will be able to do so… ????

Server

1. Log in to the API/UI server as an administrator

2. To use the separate database on the datanode server, edit the tomcat configuration at /opt/abiquo/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/api.xml

3. Change the DB endpoint from localhost to the Galera cluster (datanode server)
   Remove:

   Code Block
   driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/kinton?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"/>

   Add this line and replace {DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS} with the IP address of your datanode server:

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   driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://{DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS}:3306/kinton?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"/>

4. Change the user and password. If you need more information, please contact Abiquo Support NOT SURE WHICH USER AND PASSWORD? MYSQL?

5. To point to the datanode instead of the local host for RabbitMQ and Redis, edit the abiquo.properties file at /opt/abiquo/config/abiquo.properties:

6. Change the values of the following properties to be the IP address of the datanode

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   abiquo.rabbitmq.addresses={DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS} abiquo.redis.host={DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS}

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Server firewall requirements

From	To	Notes
Client	80/tcp	HTTP - It will be redirected to port 443 by default
	443/tcp	HTTPS - Proxy port for API/AM/UI services
Remote services appliance	8009/tcp
	8010/tcp
V2V appliance	8009/tcp
	8010/tcp

Note
Allow ICMP You must ICMP between all components of the Abiquo platform, including hypervisors.

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Datanode Firewall requirements

From	To	Notes
Monitoring	3306/tcp	MySQL
	5672/tcp	RabbitMQ
Server	2181/tcp	Zookeeper for API load balancing
	3306/tcp	MySQL
	5672/tcp	RabbitMQ
	6379/tcp	Redis
Remote services	5672/tcp	RabbitMQ
V2V	5672/tcp	RabbitMQ

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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.

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• Log in to Abiquo UI. See Starting Abiquo for the first time

• Create a user. See Create a user

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Next steps

Install Remote Services…

Old next steps

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For a quick introduction to the platform, do the Abiquo quick tutorial

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After that, to present the platform to others, try the Abiquo quick walkthrough of private cloud

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To read more details about the platform, see Get started

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For more complete user manuals, see Abiquo cloud guides

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Abiquo remote services. See Deploy distributed remote services