Introduction to external networks in vCloud Director

Abiquo enables users to create and delete OrgVDC networks inside the Org VDC and routed through the Edge as external networks. Users can also onboard and synchronize these networks from vCloud Director.

Users manage vCloud External networks in the Virtual datacenters view. External network definitions should be unique in the Organization virtual datacenter (public cloud region of the enterprise).

Abiquo continues to onboard and synchronize these other types of external networks:

• External networks outside the OrgVDC but connected to the Edge, for use by load balancers but not VM vNICs

• External networks outside the OrgVDC with a direct connection to OrgVDC as OrgVDCNetworks

• Isolated Org networks, for use by VM vNICs but not load balancers

An external network created with Abiquo can only use the gateway IP as loadbalancer address.

When you create a public cloud region or virtual datacenter, the platform does not automatically import the external networks.

• You can use the abiquo API to request the external networks with source=REMOTE in order to import them.
• When you onboard a VDC the external networks are also imported, so we recommend that you onboard a VDC after you create the PCR or after you create the VDC in order to import them