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This page describes the platform networks that the system administrator configures in the infrastructure and the cloud networks

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that the user creates in the Abiquo platform.

Platform networks

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The main platform networks to configure separately

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are as follows:

  • Management

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  • network, which is used by the Abiquo platform components to manage the virtual resources.

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  • The Abiquo Server and Abiquo Remote Services server connect to the hypervisors

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  • on this network, to deploy VMs from templates, and manage virtual resources. Abiquo also monitors infrastructure and VMs on

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  • this network.

  • Service

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  • network, which contains the virtual networks

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  • for the cloud

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  • Public network, which is used to connect VMs to the

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  • internet. This network can include multiple public VLANs and different subnets of routable

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  • internet addresses.

  • Storage network, which is optional and can be used to connect the hypervisors to storage devices

These networks are shown in the following network topology diagram

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Cloud networks

In datacenters, cloud Cloud networks are the virtual networks that administrators configure to deliver self-service IP addresses to the VMs.

The cloud network types supported by Abiquo are as follows:

  • Private

    Networks

    networks within virtual datacenters (in private and public cloud)

  • External

    Networks

    networks accessible from outside the virtual datacenter and outside the platform, and assigned to a single tenant. Used in private cloud with standard networking and integrations.

  • Unmanaged

    Networks

    networks with IP addresses managed outside of Abiquo only

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    and assigned to a single tenant. Used in private cloud

  • Public

    Networks

    networks with public IP addresses and Internet access and can be shared by multiple tenants. Used in private cloud

  • Public IPs

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     in public cloud, such as AWS Elastic IPs.  

For more detailed descriptions of each network, please see Cloud networks

The external, unmanaged, and public networks may be collectively referred to as 'datacenter networks' are also called Datacenter networks, because they are managed at the Abiquo datacenter level.

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Cloud network configuration

In private cloud, you can use standard networking or software defined networking (SDN). In public cloud and cloud providers, Abiquo supports provider networking options.

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Private cloud networks

In private cloud with standard networking, private cloud networks are virtual networks (.e.g VLANs) in the ' service network ' that runs on is part of the Abiquo platform networks. 

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For standard networks, the administrator must configure the cloud platform switches to support the VLANs virtual networks that make up the service network.  

When using standard networking you can configure VM IP addresses using DHCP or guest setup. The default configuration is the DHCP server installed by Abiquo but you can also provide your own DHCP server. If a DHCP server is not found, Abiquo uses will use guest setup with cloud-init and hypervisor tools, requiring compatible templates, or a custom guest setup method.

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Software defined networking integrations in Abiquo

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Abiquo has integrations with software defined networking (SDN) systems such as VMware NSX-T, providing easy to configure network blueprints, firewalls, load balancers, NAT, and VPNs in private cloud datacenters or regions. Abiquo uses network virtualization systems to manage private networks and IPs and to manage IPs of managed datacenter networks.

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Public cloud networking

Abiquo supports many different public cloud providers with different types of networking. In For example, in AWS, Abiquo onboards VPCs, and creates VPCs with NAT support, and Abiquo manages Elastic IPs. In OpenStack private cloud regions, you can use NeutronGoogle Cloud Platform, Abiquo supports Global (VPC) networks, and subnets.

See the Public cloud integrations and  and Public cloud providers documentation for  documentation for more information about specific providers.

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