Manage Devices

The platform has integrations with network virtualization systems to offer features such as network blueprints, self-service firewall and load balancer policies, NAT, and VPNs. The platform uses Devices to define integrations with external systems.

Devices do the following:

• register the endpoint and credentials of the network virtualization system in a private cloud datacenter
• contain a list of the virtual datacenters that the network virtualization system is managing.

A device can be created:

1. For a datacenter
2. For a single enterprise

A device belonging to a specific enterprise has a higher priority than a device for all enterprises.

The device functionality is transparent to the cloud user, who will automatically have self-service access to networks, and firewall and load balancer policies.

To create a device to define a network virtualization system:

1. Go to Infrastructure → Private → select Datacenter → Datacenter details view → Network → Devices
2. Click the + add button and enter the device details
   
   For more details see GUI Create device SDN
   
   

To use a network virtualization system to manage Abiquo external and public networks, the Network Administrator must first pre-create the networks in the network virtualization systems.
Then when you create the external or public network in Abiquo, select the device for your virtualization system.

When you edit a device, the changes you can make will depend on the network virtualization system.