Remote services
The Remote services appliance contains the Abiquo private datacenter and public cloud provider management components. A Remote services appliance is required for each private datacenter.
Installation requirements
2 CPUs
8 GB RAM
64 GB HD
Installation parameters
Parameter | Notes |
|---|---|
Server FQDN | This FQDN must be resolvable from customer premises, in order for SSL and the Appliance manager to work as expected. Abiquo will use self-signed certificates for trial environments |
Abiquo Datacenter ID | Internal ID of the trial DC. It must be unique for each DC, and all remote services and V2V appliances inside the DC must use the same datacenter ID |
NFS Template repository | NFS share for the VM repository of the DC. Each private DC must have a different NFS share |
Abiquo RabbitMQ server address | Datanode appliance IP |
Firewall requirements
From | To | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Server appliance | 8009/tcp | |
8010/tcp | ||
4822/tcp | Remote access server with Guacamole |
V2V
The server appliance contains the Abiquo virtualization format conversion components, and it is isolated for performance reasons.
As this appliance deals with conversions, we recommend fast HD storage for this appliance.
Installation requirements
2 CPUs
4 Gb RAM
256 GB HD (Depending on template conversion requirements. Get in touch with Abiquo support for further information)
Installation parameters
Parameter | Notes |
|---|---|
Server FQDN | This FQDN must be resolvable from customer premises, in order for SSL and the Appliance manager to work as expected. Abiquo will use self-signed certificates for trial environments |
Abiquo Datacenter ID | Internal ID of the DC. It must be unique for each DC, and all remote services and V2V appliances inside the DC must use the same datacenter ID |
NFS Template repository | NFS share for the VM repository of the DC. Each private DC must have a different NFS share |
Abiquo RabbitMQ IP address | Abiquo datanode appliance IP |
Firewall requirements
From | To | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Server appliance | 8009/tcp | |
8010/tcp |
Monitoring
The Monitoring appliance (optional) contains the Abiquo Watchtower components for VM monitoring and metrics, along with its required services and databases.
Installation requirements
2 CPUs
8 GB RAM
64 GB HD
Installation parameters
Parameter | Notes |
|---|---|
Abiquo Server IP | This must be the same as the Server appliance management IP address |
Abiquo RabbitMQ server IP | Abiquo datanode appliance IP, or comma separated list of IPs for a cluster |
Firewall requirements
From | To | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Remote Services | 36638/tcp | Watchtower |
Datanode services | 36638/tcp | Watchtower |
Watchtower | 7000/tcp | Emmett (One of the Abiquo monitoring services) |
KairosDB | 9042/tcp | Cassandra |
9160/tcp | Cassandra | |
Watchtower | 8080/tcp | Kairos DB |
3306/tcp | Database |
Configure other firewalls
Additionally open the following ports on the NFS server and hypervisors.
NFS server
Source | Destination | Input port | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Remote services (RS & V2V), hypervisor | NFS | TCP/UDP 2049 | NFS |
Remote services (RS & V2V), hypervisor | NFS | TCP/UDP 111 | RPC |
Hypervisors
Source | Destination | Input port | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Remote services (RS & V2V) | vCenter or ESXi | TCP 443 |
Allow ICMP
You must allow ICMP between all components of the Abiquo platform, including hypervisors.