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This page describes how to manage virtual data centers in private cloud and how to onboard virtual resources from public clouds in the hybrid cloud platform |
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This page section describes how to manage virtual datacenters in private cloud and public cloud |
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Introduction to virtual datacenters
In the Virtual virtual datacentersin myCloud view you can manage your virtual compute, network, and storage resources. Each virtual datacenter (VDC) is a separate cloud environment in a single datacenter or public cloud region. In private cloud a virtual datacenter is on a single rack so that a private network has one network tag, such as a VLAN tag, in the switch on the same rack.
To access Virtual datacenters view, click the myCloud button in the main menu and then click the cloud virtual datacenters button at the top left of the screen.
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To display all the virtual datacenters in specific providers, click the funnel filter button at the top of the list and select one or more providers.
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In Azure, before you create a virtual datacenter, create a resource group and optionally create you can also create an availability set. See Manage resource groups and Manage availability sets
In Google Cloud Platform, before you create a virtual datacenter, create a global network and create a subnet See Manage global networks and subnets
To create a new virtual datacenter with standard networking:
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Privileges: Manage virtual datacenters |
Go to myCloud view → Virtual datacenters
Below the V. datacenters list, click the + add button
Select Create a new virtual datacenter from the pull-down menu
For the General information:
For the Location select the datacenter or public cloud region to use
For the Network select from:
Default: Create The platform creates a private network (default private or external) using platform configuration. If the default network is an external network, also create a default private network.None: In private cloud only. Will using the platform settings (from Configuration view → Network) and assigns the default network (from the enterprise or platform settings)
None: The platform does not create a private network or assign the default network. This option is not available in Azure or OCI.
Custom Private: Create The platform creates a custom private network (see details below) and assigns the default network (from the enterprise or platform settings)
If your environment uses NAT, you can select:
NAT network: to use for the default SNAT rule
Default NAT IP: for the default SNAT rule
Click Save
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Create a virtual datacenter with no network
In private cloud, when When you create a virtual datacenter , with the None
selected option for the Network, the platform does not create a default private network . But the platform will create or assign the default virtual datacenter network for of the enterprise in the datacenter, if it is another type of network, such as an external networkor platform.
If there is no default network in the VDCvirtual datacenter, and the user tries to deploy a VM without a NIC, then the deploy will fail . To set the default network for the enterprise in a datacenter, edit the enterprise and go to Datacenters, and edit the datacenter, and go to Default networkbecause the platform cannot automatically assign an IP address.
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Create a virtual datacenter with a default or custom network
When you create a virtual datacenter , with Default
selected for the Network, the platform creates a private network. This private network and it counts as part of your network allocation limits, even if the default network for the enterprise in the datacenter is is another type of network, such as an external network.
The private network can be the Automatically-created private VLANnetwork
, which is called default_private_network
, or a custom private network, which will be set as the you can define with the Custom private
option. The platform will assign the private network as the default network if there is no other enterprise default network.
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Create a virtual datacenter with a custom private network
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Field | Description |
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Name | The name of the network to create |
Netmask | The network mask CIDR |
Network address | The network address |
Address range | The address space that the virtual datacenter can use in CIDR format. |
Gateway | The IP of the gateway of the network |
Availability zone | The availability zone where VMs attached to this network will deploy |
Primary DNS | The primary DNS of the network |
Secondary DNS | The secondary DNS of the VLANnetwork |
DNS suffix | The DNS suffix for the VLANnetwork |
To manage the VLANs or other networks of your virtual datacenter or to change its default network, go to Virtual datacenters → Network. See Manage networks.
For information about changing the default network of the VDC, see Manage networks
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Create a virtual datacenter for NSX-T
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You cannot have a hard limit only
Soft limits must always be less than or equal to hard limits
When a limit is equal to
0
, it means that there is no limit to resource usage at this levelWhen editing limits, you cannot set the hard limits below the existing resource usage, except for Local hard disk
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Default datastore tier | Select the default disk service level for VM disks on the hypervisor datastore.
To clear the current tier, click the black |
Subnet | In Google Cloud Platform you must select a default subnet to be able to deploy VMs |
After you create the virtual datacenter, you can edit it to change the default values.
Note that Abiquo will use the enterprise’s default network in the cloud location as To set the default network for the new a virtual datacenter, see the section below.
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Set a virtual datacenter role to limit user access
If you are able to manage user roles, you can limit user access to a virtual datacenter for users that can have their virtual datacenters restricted (usually ordinary standard cloud users).
For example, you can give users read-only access. You can only apply restricted roles to users that can have their VDCs restricted, which are users without the No VDC restriction
privilege.
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To limit access to a VDC virtual datacenter for cloud users:
Go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters
Create, edit, or onboard a virtual datacenter
Go to Roles
For the Role, select a more restrictive role to replace user roles within this VDCvirtual datacenter.
For example, to give cloud users read-only access, select theENTERPRISE_VIEWER
roleTo create exceptions to the VDC role:
Select a Username and an exception Role for the user
Click Add
When you finish creating or editing the virtual datacenter, click Save
The exception will enable activate all privileges that are included in both the user's role and the exception role. It is not possible to grant additional privileges using a VDC role.
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The platform will create the virtual datacenter and the default private VLAN and display it in the Virtual datacenters view (and any selected private network) and you can work with its virtual resources.
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Create a virtual datacenter using the API
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Go to Virtual datacenters → Edit → Defaults
For the Default firewall, select an appropriate firewall firewall
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To manage tags for a virtual datacenter:
Go to Virtual datacenters → Edit a virtual datacenter → Tags
Add tags
For more details see Edit resource tags.
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Set
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the default network for
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all virtual
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datacenters
By default, the platform automatically creates a default private network for each virtual datacenter. So if you deploy a VM without assigning a NIC, the platform will add one from the default network.You can
To configure the default networks before you create a virtual datacenter:
To define the default private network
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for all virtual datacenters in the platform, go to Configuration view → Network
To set the default network for all virtual datacenters in an enterprise: edit the enterprise and go to Datacenters, edit a datacenter and go to Default network. You can select the platform’s default private network or an external network of the enterprise
When you change these values, the new values will apply to new virtual datacenters.
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Set a default network after you create a virtual datacenter
After you create a virtual datacenter, you can configure the default network to be a private network, an external network, or a public network.
To set a network as the default, you will require privileges to access this network in the virtual infrastructure.
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Privileges: Manage virtual datacenter network elements, Access public network tab, |
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Go to Virtual datacenters → select
Select a virtual datacenter → Network and go to Network
Select the network type, such as
Private
,External
, orPublic
Create a new private network or edit a any network
Select the Default network network checkbox
This The new default will override the platform default network and the network set for the enterprise in the datacenternetwork will replace any previous default network
The new default network will apply to all VMs deployed after you set it
For a public network that is the virtual datacenter default, obtain IP addresses for your VMs before you deploy a VM
For an external network that is the virtual datacenter default, your administrator must create IP addresses in infrastructure for your VMs before you deploy a VM
The platform will mark the default network with a star symbol.
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Onboard from public cloud
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