Manage Virtual Datacenters

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What is a Virtual Datacenter

A Virtual Datacenter is an abstraction of a physical Datacenter that offers the same capabilities (such as network infrastructure, external storage system, backup, security, etc) taking the advantatges of the Cloud Computing technology:

  • Virtualization
  • Pay-as-you-go billing
  • Quickly scalability
  • Technology and hardware abstraction.

This offers the cloud users the opportunity to run their applications in a more economical and flexible way. A Virtual Datacenter offers the classical Datacenter infrastructure, as a service.

With Abiquo, it is so easy to create, manage and configure Virtual Datacenter instances from the Virtual Datacenters view.

The allowed operations on a Virtual Datacenter are:

Button Action
Create a new Virtual Datacenter
Remove an existing Virtual Datacenter
Edit the selected Virtual Datacenter

Creating a Virtual Datacenter

To create a new Virtual Datacenter, click the button and fill the following form:
Field Description
Name The Name of the Virtual Datacenter
Datacenter The Physical Datacenter where Virtual Appliance will be deployed
Hypervisor The type of the Hypervisor for the Virtual Datacenter
Private network Private Network configuration:
  • Default: Creates a default VLAN in the range TODO
  • Custom: allows to create a custom VLAN (see the form below)

VLAN customization

If you select the Custom option for the Private Network configuration, the form will expand and show networking configuration options as shown in the following screenshot:
Field Description
Name The Name of VLAN to create
Address The network address and mask
Gateway The IP of the Gateway of the VLAN
Primary DNS The primary DNS of the network
Secondary DNS The secondary DNS of the VLAN
DNS suffix The DNS suffix fot the VLAN

Once the creation form is filled and submitted, the Virtual Datacenter and the associated VLAN will be created and shown in the Virtual Datacenters view.

After Virtual datacenter creation, VLANs can be managed in the Networking tab as explained in the Manage Networks section.

Viewing DHCP information

The DHCP information that will be used to assign IPs to the Virtual Machines of the Virtual Datacenter, can be viewed by selecting the Virtual Datacenter, clicking the button and selecting the Show DHCP info option.

  • In Community Edition, this configuration must be copied manually to your DHCP server.
  • In Enterprise Edition, DHCP is automatically configured by the DHCP Remote Service.
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