Create servers

To add a server (also called a host or physical machine), first discover it in infrastructure.

1. Go to Infrastructure → Private → select datacenter → Servers

2. If there are no racks, first create a rack. See Create racks

3. Select a rack, then click the + add button. Select Physical machine

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4. Select the Hypervisor type, which could be a standard hypervisor, master hypervisor such as vCenter, or VMware vCenter cluster as a physical machine

   • Remember when you are configuring test environments that you cannot add a vCenter more than once, for example, as a master hypervisor and as a cluster!  

5. Enter the connection details. You can enter the IP address or the FQDN of the server

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   Using the connection details, the Discovery Manager remote services will try to retrieve the hypervisors or clusters from a master hypervisor or connect with the hypervisor or cluster.

6. For a master hypervisor, the multiple hypervisor selection dialog will open with a list of the physical machines managed by the master hypervisor. Select the ones that you wish to add and click Edit to complete their details as required. 

7. After the platform retrieves each host (server or "physical machine"), the Create physical machine dialog will open.

Register a physical machine in Abiquo

To register a physical machine in Abiquo, do these steps.

1. Enter the Name, which defaults to its IP address, and check the other details

2. Go to Network interfaces and enable at least one network interface. To do this, select the network service type of the VLANs that will use this interface

3. Go to Datastores and and enable at least one datastore. 

   • For vCenter clusters, use shared datastores, and if you require local datastores, add them to single-host tiers

     • When you use a shared datastore, the platform creates a different datastore on each physical machine using the datastore.
       This means that a shared datastore can be enabled on one host and disabled on another, either as a result of user configuration or an issue (e.g. an NFS communication error on one host).

   • Do not enable the NFS repository (usually /opt/vm_repository) because this will severely degrade deployment performance

      

4. Click Save