Create unmanaged networks

In private cloud datacenters, unmanaged networks are a special type of external network with IP addresses that are allocated outside of the platform.
Abiquo does not manage the IP addresses for VMs attached to these networks.

Before you begin, obtain the details of your network in the infrastructure, including the VLAN tag, network address, and gateway.

To create unmanaged networks do these steps:

Go to Infrastructure → Private
Select a datacenter and go to Servers → Network → External.
On the External page, click the + add button
Complete the dialog as described, marking the Unmanaged checkbox.

Create an unmanaged network

Field	Value

Field	Value
Name	The name of the unmanaged VLAN with up to 128 characters
IPv6	To create an IPv6 network, select this checkbox
Strict	For IPv6 networks only. If you select Strict, Abiquo will automatically generate EUI64 IP addresses and you will not be able to manually generate them
Address	The network address of the VLAN
Netmask	The network mask in CIDR format
Gateway	The gateway of the network. It must be an IP address inside the range defined by the network address and the network mask
Tag	The VLAN tag to use for this VLAN
Check	Check tag availability for all racks of the datacenter. You should define a VLAN with the same tag on all racks. Green = available, Yellow = in use, Red = unavailable
Network service type	Select the Network Service Type, which represents a network interface on the hypervisors
Unmanaged	Select to create an unmanaged network, when you will manage IP addresses outside Abiquo
Enterprise	Select the owner enterprise that will use the unmanaged VLAN
Device	Not used for unmanaged networks
Primary DNS	The IP address of the Primary DNS server
Secondary DNS	The IP address of the Secondary DNS server
DNS suffix	The default DNS suffix
Restricted	Mark this checkbox to create a Restricted network. To work with IPs in a restricted network, users require the privileges to Attach NICs in restricted networks and/or Detach NICs from restricted networks
Excluded from firewall	Select Excluded from firewall to define a network where VM firewalls will not apply
Static routes	Not used for unmanaged networks

To display IP addresses of NICS in unmanaged networks, add them:

using the API; or
during VM capture using the UI or API

For strict IPv6 networks, you cannot add IP addresses.
However, the platform retrieves the MAC address from the hypervisor and uses that to generate an IPv6 address for display.
The display address should be the same as the address allocated by the router system.