Create a datacenter

When you create a datacenter in the multi-cloud platform, you register the remote services that will manage the physical and virtual infrastructure in the cloud location.

The most common production configuration is a distributed or distributed HA cluster installation with a separate Remote Services server for each location. A common trial configuration is the monolithic installation, where the remote services for a single datacenter run on the same server as the API.

• For more details see Abiquo components

If you are terminating TLS outside of the Abiquo environment, then if you wish to offer template upload and download, users will need to access to this remote service, and you should configure the Appliance manage remote service to use HTTPS.

• For more details see Configure Abiquo Tomcat with HTTPS for Remote RS

If you are using Abiquo standard networking with DHCP, then you will need to register the fully qualified domain name of the DHCP or DHCPv6 remote service running with Omapi or Dnsmasq. If you are using SDN integrations, such as NSX-T, then Abiquo will automatically use the DHCP server of the SDN system. You can also configure the IP addresses of your VMs with guest tools or cloud-init and similar, and then you do not need to register a DHCP service.

Before you begin:

1. Obtain the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address of the server/s where the Remote Services are running

2. Check if you will require the DHCP service and check the protocol to use (Omapi or Dnsmasq)

To create a datacenter do these steps:

1. Go to Infrastructure → Private

2. At the bottom of the Datacenters list, click the + add button

3. On the Create datacenter dialog, enter the Name of the datacenter and its Location to plot the datacenter on the Infrastructure view map. Then click Next.
   
   

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4. To create the datacenter remote services, enter the FQDN or IP address of the remote services server

   1. If they are all running on the same server, for the Virtualization manager, enter the FQDN or IP address of the Remote services server. To copy the remote service location, click Duplicate IP addresses 

   2. If your environment was a Monolithic OVA install or you have configured it, to use Catalogue features such as OVA upload, for the Appliance manager, change the protocol to HTTPS and the port to 443.
      
      

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After the platform creates the datacenter, do these steps:

• To allow users to deploy in the datacenter, edit your enterprises to add the new datacenter to the Allowed datacenters list 

• To allow administrators to manage the datacenter, edit your administration scopes and add the new datacenter 

Related pages

• Troubleshoot when you create a datacenter