Introduction to synchronization of VDCs in public cloud

During VDC synchronization, the platform will ensure that the resources in the platform and the provider are the same.

Synchronization will delete entities in the platform that were deleted already in the provider
However, it will maintain resources attached to undeployed VMs in the platform
For example, if a user has an undeployed VM with IPs and a load balancer, then after the synchronization, these resources are attached to the VM in the platform only

Note to System Administrators: for information about tuning public cloud synchronization, see Abiquo Configuration Properties in the pcr (public cloud region) section.

Resources in undeployed VMs are available in the provider. Users working directly in the provider could assign these resources to other VMs. This will cause a conflict and error at deploy time

You can also synchronize specific resources such as networks, public IPs, firewalls, volumes, and load balancers.