Manage datacenters and public cloud regions

This page describes how to manage datacenters. For details of how to manage remote services, see Manage remote services

Create a datacenter

This section describes how to create a datacenter. If you already have a datacenter, see Add an additional datacenter to your cloud platform.
To create a public cloud region, see Create a public cloud region.

When you create a datacenter in the multi-cloud platform, you register the remote services that will manage the physical and virtual infrastructure in the cloud location.

The most common production configuration is a distributed or distributed HA cluster installation with a separate Remote Services server for each location. A common trial configuration is the monolithic installation, where the remote services for a single datacenter run on the same server as the API.

For more details see Abiquo components

If you are terminating TLS outside of the Abiquo environment, then if you wish to offer template upload and download, users will need to access to this remote service, and you should configure the Appliance manage remote service to use HTTPS.

For more details see Configure Abiquo Tomcat with HTTPS for Remote RS

If you are using Abiquo standard networking with DHCP, then you will need to register the fully qualified domain name of the DHCP or DHCPv6 remote service running with Omapi or Dnsmasq. If you are using SDN integrations, such as NSX-T, then Abiquo will automatically use the DHCP server of the SDN system. You can also configure the IP addresses of your VMs with guest tools or cloud-init and similar, and then you do not need to register a DHCP service.

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Before you begin:

Obtain the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address of the server/s where the Remote Services are running
Check if you will require the DHCP service and check the protocol to use (Omapi or Dnsmasq)

Privileges: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, Manage datacenter

To create a datacenter do these steps:

Go to Infrastructure → Private
At the bottom of the Datacenters list, click the + add button
On the Create datacenter dialog, enter the Name of the datacenter and its Location to plot the datacenter on the Infrastructure view map. Then click Next.
To create the datacenter remote services, enter the FQDN or IP address of the remote services server
1. If they are all running on the same server, for the Virtualization manager, enter the FQDN or IP address of the Remote services server. To copy the remote service location, click Duplicate IP addresses
2. If your environment was a Monolithic OVA install or you have configured it, to use Catalogue features such as OVA upload, for the Appliance manager, change the protocol to HTTPS and the port to 443.

After the platform creates the datacenter, do these steps:

To allow users to deploy in the datacenter, edit your enterprises to add the new datacenter to the Allowed datacenters list
To allow administrators to manage the datacenter, edit your administration scopes and add the new datacenter

Related pages

Troubleshoot when you create a datacenter

Create a datacenter using the API

API Documentation

For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource DatacentersResource.

Modify a datacenter

This section describes how to modify a datacenter. For details of how to modify a public cloud region, see Manage public cloud regions.

In General information you can change the Name and Location of a datacenter

To modify the remote services in an existing datacenter:

Edit the datacenter and go to Remote services
- To add an existing remote service, click on the arrow to the right of the Remote service and select the new remote service
- To remove a remote service, click the black x beside it
- To display the status of the remote service from the last manual or automatic infrastructure check, click the Check button and the status indicator will show green or red (not available). You should not save a location when any of the remote services are not available in the location.
When you have edited all the Remote services, click Save.

You cannot edit the Appliance manager or the Business process manager. They must always be associated with one and only one location.
You can only replace them on the main Remote Services tab in Infrastructure view (and you will need to keep the same repository for the AM) or delete them by deleting the entire location.

Delete a datacenter

Before you begin

Delete virtual infrastructure, such as virtual datacenters and storage volumes defined within the datacenter. For more information, see Manage virtual datacenters.

To delete a datacenter.

Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select the datacenter and click the trash bin delete button in the button bar at the bottom of the Datacenters list
When you delete a datacenter
1. The remote services that can be shared will be detached from the datacenter, but not deleted from the platform.
2. The remote services that cannot be shared are automatically deleted from the platform.

To delete multiple remote services:

Go to Infrastructure → Remote services
Select the remote services and click the Delete button.