IPv6 use cases

There are two main use cases for IPv6 in Abiquo: Automatic generation of IPv6 address and Manual entry of IPv6 address. When you create a network, if you set strict = true, the platform enforces EUI-64 IP address generation.

Strict networks	Abiquo automatically generates IPv6 address
Description	Abiquo can automatically generate the host-specific part of the IP to the EUI-64 standard Abiquo uses the MAC of the virtual machine to automatically generate the Host ID When the MAC is not yet available from the hypervisor (prior to deploy of public and external networks), Abiquo supplies a placeholder IP The placeholder IP: displays as a question mark "?" will be replaced with a real IP when the virtual machine is deployed
Strict network?	Network parameter strict = true
Router advertisement system	You must always configure the network in the router advertisement system for all IPv6 network types Unmanaged networks will usually receive their IPv6 addresses from the router advertisement system Public, external and private strict networks can also receive stateless IPv6 addresses from this system based on their MACs the DHCP server is not required, because Abiquo will generate and display the same IP addresses as the router advertisement system
DHCPv6	In general, DHCPv6 is required to supply DNS information to the virtual machines DHCPv6 can be used to supply IPv6 addresses to the virtual machines The addresses generated by the router advertisement system from the MACs of the virtual machines should be the same as those generated by DHCPv6 When a router advertisement system is used to assign the IPv6 address, the correct addresses should still be displayed in Abiquo
Placeholder IPs	EUI-64 requires the MAC from the hypervisor A placeholder IP is used until the MAC is provided by the hypervisor at deploy time The placeholder IP is represented by a "?"

Non-strict networks	User may manually enter IPv6 address
Description	You can manually enter an IPv6 address in Abiquo This address must be valid for the IPv6 network Cloud users can select from these IPv6 addresses when configuring their virtual machines
Strict network?	Network parameter strict = false
Router advertisement system	You must always configure the network in the router advertisement system for all IPv6 network types
DHCPv6	DHCPv6 service is required to supply IPv6 addresses and DNS information to the virtual machines DHCPv6-ready templates are required: Windows: configure DUID in registry Unix: configure dhcpv6 client and firewall/security The DHCPv6 service can assign static addresses 1 x IPv6 address to a Windows virtual machine Multiple IPv6 addresses to a Unix virtual machine with appropriate template configuration
Automatic IPv6 generation is also supported	Abiquo can also automatically generate an IPv6 address for non-strict private, public and external networks If the MAC is available, generate an IPv6 address in EUI-64 format If the MAC is not available, (prior to deploy in external or public networks), generate a random IPv6 address

A basic sample configuration for testing the Manual IP entry use case is available from Abiquo Support.