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Create a new enterprise, assigning it to a datacenter

When you set the default network for this enterprise, it will only apply to VMs that are created after the default network is set. create an enterprise in Abiquo, you must give it access to a datacenter.

If you are creating the enterprise in the API, remember that you must add an enterprise-datacenter limit for each datacenter your enterprise will access.

When you set the default network for this enterprise, it will only apply to VMs that are created after the default network is set.

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Allow the new enterprise to access the datacenter.

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See Manage enterprises in in the section Allow enterprise users to deploy VMs.

Create the external network in each physical datacenter

Go to Infrastructure View, open your datacenter and click the Network tab. Click on the External page and click the + Add add button to add a new network.

It is important to check the VLAN tag availability in the datacenter where this tag will be used. If you share the VLAN tag across more than one network, the check indicator will be yellow. If it is reserved in Abiquo, the check indicator will be red.

Enter the network details and select the new enterprise that will use the external network, then click Save. Remember that this VLAN tag should not be available to the Rack for creating private networks, which means it should be excluded when you edit the Rack.

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Create IP addresses and click Accept.

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Next click the Available IPs link and make unavailable any of the IP addresses that you wish to use for administrative purposes, for example, the gateway address. 

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For each physical datacenter enabled for the enterprise configure a default external network

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Edit the enterprise, then edit the Allowed datacenter, and go to the Default VLAN network tab. Select the external network.

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See Manage virtual datacenters#Createavirtualdatacenterdatacenters

API workflow for creating default external networks

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