Create a virtual datacenter

Before you begin:

In Azure, before you create a virtual datacenter, Create a resource group and optionally Create an availability set.

To create a new virtual datacenter:

Go to myCloud Virtual datacenters view
Above the V. datacenters list, click the + add button
Select Create a new virtual datacenter from the pull-down menu
Complete the dialog as described below
Click Save

General information

This section describes the basic details to enter when creating a virtual datacenter. The following sections describe further configuration.

For more details see GUI Create virtual datacenter General information

Create a virtual datacenter with custom networks

When you create a virtual datacenter, the platform always creates a private network and it counts as part of your VLAN allocation limits, even if the default network is another type of network.

The private network can be the "Automatically-created private VLAN", which is called "default_private_network", or a custom private network, which will be set as the default network.

To create a Custom private network, complete the Network section of this dialog.

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For more details see GUI Create virtual datacenter General information Custom private network PCR

To manage the VLANs or other networks of your virtual datacenter, go to Virtual datacenters → Network. See Manage Networks.

For information about changing the default network of the VDC, see Manage Networks

Manage resource allocation limits for a virtual datacenter

A Hard limit is the maximum amount of a virtual resource (e.g. RAM) that an entity will be allowed to consume.
A Soft limit warns users and administrators that the entity is running out of a resource.

The rules for creating allocation limits are as follows:

You cannot have a hard limit only
Soft limits must always be less than or equal to hard limits
When a limit is equal to 0, it means that there is no limit to resource usage at this level
When editing limits, you cannot set the hard limits below the existing resource usage, except for Local hard disk

For more details see GUI Create virtual datacenter Allocation limits

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Consider a virtual datacenter with a soft limit of 1 virtual CPU and a hard limit of 4 virtual CPUs.

The user will exceed the soft limit if they deploy a virtual appliance with more than 1 CPU in the virtual datacenter.
The user will exceed the hard limit if they attempt to deploy a virtual appliance with more than 4 CPUs in the virtual datacenter.

Soft limits message

A soft-limits message popup will allow the user to to acknowledge the message and continue with the operation.

By default, the message will provide details of the limits, used, and requested resources.

For example, the limits are 5 CPUs, the users have 2 CPUs in deployed VMs, and they have requested 3 more CPUs.

The platform will also display this type of message when the users exceed soft limits at another level, for example, enterprise, enterprise in provider, or enterprise in location.

Hard limits message

A hard-limits message pop-up will allow the user to acknowledge the message and terminate the operation.

By default, the message will provide details of the limits, used, and requested resources.

For example, the limits are 5 CPUs, the users have 5 CPUs in deployed VMs, and they have requested 1 more CPU. Because the user will exceed the hard limit, the platform will not allow the user to obtain 1 CPU.

The platform will also display this type of message when the users exceed soft limits at another level, for example, enterprise, enterprise in provider, or enterprise in location.

Set virtual datacenter defaults

When you create a virtual datacenter, you can set some defaults according to your platform configuration.

For more details see GUI Create virtual datacenter Defaults

After you create the virtual datacenter, you can edit it the default values.

Limit user access to the virtual datacenter

If you are able to manage user roles, you can limit user access to the virtual datacenter for users that are subject to VDC restriction, for example, to give users read-only access.

Privilege: Manage roles, No VDC restriction

For more details see GUI Create virtual datacenter Roles

After you have entered Allocation limits, Defaults, and Role, click Save.

The platform will create the virtual datacenter and the default private VLAN and display it in the Virtual datacenters view.

Create a virtual datacenter using the API

API Documentation

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