Configure datacenters before you add hypervisors

Before you add your hypervisors to the platform, we recommend that you do the following steps.

1. Check that the installation and configuration of your hypervisors follows Abiquo instructions in the corresponding Private cloud providers documentation.
2. Optionally enter the default hypervisor connection details at Configuration → Infrastructure: Default hypervisor user, password, port
3. Optionally enter the default VLAN tag range for racks at Configuration → Infrastructure: Default minimum and maximum VLAN ID
4. Optionally enter the default private network details at Configuration → Network: Name, netmask, network address, gateway, and DNS settings
5. For hypervisor storage service levels, create datastore tiers. See Manage Datastore Service Levels with Datastore Tiers
   1. When you create the tier, set the Storage allocation policy for the datastore allocation process. 
   2. You can set Allocation rules to define the percentage of each datastore that will be available for the platform to use at a datacenter or datastore tier level before you add datastores. See Allocation Rules#Storageloadlevelrules. Create specific Datastore rules after you add the datastore.
6. Create network service types to tag your hypervisor network interfaces. See Manage Network Service Types