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Abiquo can also work with NSX-T to create network configurations such as firewalls, load balancers, and NAT.

Warning
  • Abiquo does not support ESXi hosts without vCenter

  • Abiquo does not support VSAN datastores

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Supported versions

Abiquo has been tested with the following latest versions.

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Feature

Description

Datastores

VMFS, NFS, vVol.
Abiquo does not support VSAN datastores.
You can use any storage protocol, such as iSCSI, NFS, FC, FCoE, or direct attached.

VM disk controller types

  • IDE (default for compatibility reasons),

  • SCSI

  • SATA

VM SCSI controllers

  • VirtualLsiLogicController (default) 

  • ParaVirtualSCSIController

  • VirtualBusLogicController

  • VirtualLsiLogicSASController

VM system disks

By default, for VMs deployed on ESX/ESXi hypervisors:

  • If disks are deployed from VMDK Sparse templates, they will be in Sparse format

  • If disks are deployed from VMDK templates or conversions from formats other than VMDK Sparse, they will be in flat/fixed formats with thin provisioning enabled

Disk resize

(tick) (warning) System disk resize
(tick) (warning) Hard disk resize

See Configure VM disks for VMware

Storage live migration

For vCenter hosts, Abiquo detects storage vMotion on all datastores

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You can also configure Abiquo to ignore datastores by name and to .

Abiquo will automatically ignore datastores that are not writeableaccessible.

See Configure datastore discovery for VMware

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To delete a datastore, make sure it is empty and not attached to the host.

The datastore refresh will handle inaccessible datastores as follows.

  • Remove inaccessible datastores if they are not used by any managed VMs

  • Disable inaccessible datastores if they are used by any managed VMs.

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Configuration of VM disks

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