Introduction to devices
The platform has integrations with network virtualization systems to offer features such as network blueprints, self-service firewall and load balancer policies, NAT, and VPNs. The platform uses Devices to define integrations with external systems.
Devices do the following:
register the endpoint and credentials of the network virtualization system in a private cloud datacenter
contain a list of the virtual datacenters that the network virtualization system is managing.
A device can be created:
For a datacenter
For a single enterprise
A device belonging to a specific enterprise has a higher priority than a device for all enterprises.
The device functionality is transparent to the cloud user, who will automatically have self-service access to networks, and firewall and load balancer policies.
Privileges: Manage devices
Create a device to define a network virtualization system
To create a device to define a network virtualization system:
Go to Infrastructure → Private → select Datacenter → Datacenter details view → Network → Devices
Click the + add button and enter the device details
Field | Value |
Plugin type | Network virtualization system and blueprint |
Interfaces | A list of interfaces or functionality supported by the plugin |
Name | The name of the device. Identify the device to users who will create platform networks, such as external and public networks |
User | The username of the account that Abiquo will use to connect to the device. |
Password | The password of the account that Abiquo will use to connect to the device. |
Description | Your description of the device |
Endpoint | The URL where Abiquo can connect to the device; usually requires HTTPS. For example: |
Enterprise | Optional: to restrict the device to a single cloud tenant, select the enterprise. If you do not select a tenant, the device will be the default for all enterprises that do not have a specific device assigned. |
To use a network virtualization system to manage Abiquo external and public networks, the Network Administrator must first pre-create the networks in the network virtualization systems.
Then when you create the external or public network in Abiquo, select the device for your virtualization system.
Edit a device
When you edit a device, the changes you can make will depend on the network virtualization system.
Manage devices using the API
This feature is available in the Abiquo API. See DeviceTypesResource , DatacenterDevicesResource and DevicesResource
When you create a device with the API, remember to set vdcDefault to true.
If you created a device to use by all enterprises, if you want to create a VDC that does not use this device, use the API to set vdcDefault to false while you create the VDC.
Related links
Configure networks in infrastructure: Network
Configure platform defaults: Configuration view
Manage datacenter networks in the platform: Networks