Platform networks
The main platform networks to configure separately for the platform datacenters are:- Management Network: used by the Abiquo platform components to manage the virtual resources. It connects the Abiquo Server components to the hypervisors that are managed. Infrastructure and virtual machines are monitored on this network. Virtual machine templates are also deployed over this network.
- Service Network: contains the virtual networks (VLANs) for the cloud
- Storage Network: optionally used to connect the hypervisors to the iSCSI storage with user volumes and persistent virtual machine disks
- Public Network: used to connect virtual machines to the Internet. This network can include multiple public VLANs and different subnets of routable Internet addresses.
These networks are shown in the following network topology diagram
Cloud networks
In datacenters, cloud networks are the self-service virtual networks that admins and users can use and configure to deliver IP addresses to the virtual machines deployed by Abiquo.
The cloud network types supported by Abiquo are as follows:
- Private Networks within virtual datacenters
- External Networks accessible from outside the virtual datacenter and outside the Abiquo platform, and ssigned to a single tenant
- Unmanaged Networks with IP addresses managed outside of Abiquo only, and assigned to a single tenant
- Public Networks with public IP addresses and Internet access and can be shared by multiple tenants
For more detailed descriptions of each network, please see Cloud Tenant Networks
Cloud network configuration options
- Standard networking
- DHCP server
- Guest setup
- Software defined networking (SDN)
Standard networking
In standard networking, cloud networks are VLANs in the 'service network' that runs on the Abiquo platform networks. For each datacenter, the network administrator should design the configuration (e.g. VLAN tags, switches, SDN) that will be required. For standard networks, the administrator must configure the cloud platform switches to support the VLANs that make up the service network.
When using standard networking there are many different ways to configure virtual machine network addresses:
- DHCP
- The default configuration is the DHCP server installed by Abiquo
- Own DHCP server
- Guest setup
- Abiquo supports cloud-init and hypervisor tools
- Own guest setup method