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This guide describes how to configure Abiquo to create the NSX infrastructure for each Virtual Datacenter according to the following blueprint:

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For each Virtual Datacenter Abiquo will create the ESG and connect the uplink to the configured network.

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Every time a VDC is deployed, Abiquo will create a NSX edge and connect it the uplink network to provide gateway, router, firewall, load balancing and SNAT services to the VMs inside the VDC.

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Limitations

  • Maximum 9 private networks per VDC as per NSX limitation

  • Load balancers do not support firewalls.

Abiquo properties

The following properties are global to the platform and must be configured in the /opt/abiquo/config/abiquo.properties fileServer and Remote Services appliances:

Name

Description

abiquo.nsx.transport-zone

The transport zone where the networks created by Abiquo will be attached.

abiquo.nsx.edge.cluster-id

Identifier (in VCenter) of the cluster where Abiquo will deploy the ESG.

abiquo.nsx.edge.datastore-id

Identifier

CSV list of identifiers (in VCenter) of the

datastore

datastores where Abiquo

will

can deploy the ESG appliances according to the datastore-policy

abiquo.nsx.edge.datastore-policy

Allocation policy for selection of datastores to deploy ESG appliances.
Default: leastvms
Range: leastvms, mostspace

abiquo.nsx.edge.dvportgroup-id

Id of the port group where Abiquo will attach the ESG uplink.

abiquo.nsx.edge.public-network-cidr

Network range where the ESG uplink IP and the "public" load balancer IPs will be taken from. It must be a range dedicated to Abiquo.

abiquo.nsx.load-balancer-reserved-ips

Number of IP addresses that are reserved for NSX in each private network to allocate to load balancers. Default: 20
The gateway can be address 1. The reserved IPs range starts from address 2 for the number of IPs configured by the user, by default, up to address 21
Users should work with automatic IP allocation. In any case, the system administrator should inform the users of the range and by default, the first free address is address 22 

The following properties can be configured globally or per tenant. See Manage enterprise credentials and properties  to configure them as tenant properties.

To configure properties globally in the API properties, add an abiquo. prefix to their names, such as abiquo.nsx.esg.size:

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Name

Description

nsx.virtualwire.teaming  

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Use this property to set the teaming policy for the portGroup that is the backing for the VirtualWire when it is created.

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This value

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cannot be changed after it is created.
Default: "failover_explicit"
Values: "failover_explicit", "loadbalance_ip", "loadbalance_loadbased", "loadbalance_srcid", or "loadbalance_srcmac"

 

Adding the NSX device in the Abiquo Datacenter

After you configure the global properties, you will have to add the NSX device to the Abiquo Datacenter. Check Create a Device for Network Virtualization in the User Guide for the details.

In the Create Device popup, enter the details of the NSX you want to configure, selecting the nsx-gateway plugin type, the credentials for the vCenter user with NSX administration rights and the API endpoint.

Usually, the endpoint is https://ADDRESS/api , where ADDRESS is the NSX appliance IP address.

nsx.edge.esg.size

Size of the ESG appliances.

Values: compact, large, quadlarge, xlarge

nsx.edge.description

Description to configure in the edges created by Abiquo.

nsx.load-balancer-acceleration

Whether load balancer acceleration is enabled in the edge load balancers.

Default: false