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This page describes the platform networks that the system administrator configures in the infrastructure and the cloud networks created within 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
Public
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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
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network, which is optional and can be used to connect the hypervisors to
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storage devices
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These networks are shown in the following network topology diagram
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Cloud networks
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Cloud networks
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
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networks within virtual datacenters (in private and public cloud)
External
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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
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networks with IP addresses managed outside of Abiquo only
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and assigned to a single tenant. Used in private cloud
Public
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networks with public IP addresses and Internet access and can be shared by multiple tenants. Used in private cloud
Public IPs in public cloud, such as AWS Elastic IPs.
The external, unmanaged, and public networks
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are also called Datacenter networks, because they are managed at the Abiquo datacenter level.
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Cloud network configuration
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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
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 the 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. For example, in AWS, Abiquo onboards VPCs, and creates VPCs with NAT support, and Abiquo manages Elastic IPs. In Google Cloud Platform, Abiquo supports Global (VPC) networks, and subnets.
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