Cloud administrators manage the physical infrastructure (represented in Abiquo as a set of physical datacenters) from the Infrastructure view. To manage datacenters, click the Infrastructure button 
at the top of the main screen. To open a datacenter and view its details click on the datacenter in the list.
Users with the Manage datacenters privilege can perform the following operations:
| Button | Action |
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Create a new Datacenter |
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Remove an existing Datacenter |
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Edit the selected Datacenter |
Creating a Datacenter
 | API feature This feature is available in the API. See Datacenter Resource. |
To create a new datacenter, enter the name and location of the datacenter, and the location of the remote services that are deployed as part of the Abiquo platform.
The basic fields of the Create Datacenter form are:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | The name of the datacenter |
| Location | The physical location of the datacenter |
Remote Services
| API feature This feature is available in the API. See Remote Service Resource. |
Because Abiquo is based on a distributed architecture, the Remote Service interface configures the different elements of the distributed architecture that will be used by a datacenter to provide the IaaS cloud. The remote services used by Abiquo are described in the table below.
| Remote Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Virtualization Manager | Manages virtual appliance startup and shutdown. Connects to cloud nodes to perform virtual machine operations. |
| Monitor Manager | Performs virtual appliance monitoring. Listens for events occurring in cloud nodes and updates virtual appliance state. |
| Appliance Manager | Manages the virtual machine images, appliance library and image repositories. |
Enterprise Edition Remote Services
 | Enterprise Edition Functionality This feature is available in Abiquo Enterprise Edition |
| Remote Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Discovery Manager | Used to autodiscover physical machines. Retrieves hardware information, hypervisor type, and existing virtual machine information. |
| DHCP Service | This is the DHCP service used to assign IP addresses to the Abiquo managed virtual machines. |
| Business Process Manager | Performs asynchronous Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) operations. |
| Storage Manager | Manages external storage in a standardized way. |
Remote Service Fields
For each Remote Service complete the following fields, then click Check to test the remote service connection. If the remote services are all running on the same machine, enter the machine's address in the first box and mark the Duplicate IP Addresses checkbox to copy the same URL for all remote services.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Protocol | The protocol used to connect to the remote service |
| Address | The address of the remote service |
| Port | The port used to connect to the remote service. The default port is 80 |
| Context | The context where the remote service is published |
You must enter an accessible (public) IP for the Remote Services servers. Abiquo uses these addresses for intermodule communication between the distributed components of the platform, so you cannot enter localhost or 127.0.0.1. The 
icon will be displayed when the IP format has been verified.
 | Do not create a Datacenter without all the Remote Services running On the Create Datacenter form you should check if the URLs you have entered have the corresponding remote service running. You cannot deploy machines without all the remote services running. Thus we strongly recommend that you do not create a datacenter if any of the remote services are down or not properly configured. |
Datacenters Cannot Share an NFS Repository or Appliance Library
Each datacenter MUST have its own NFS repository configured for its own Appliance Library. This is done at Remote Service level. See repositoryLocation in the Abiquo Configuration Properties.
The Virtual Factory, Virtual System Monitor and Appliance Manager Remote Services cannot be shared across datacenters. This is because these remote service configurations include the NFS repository or Appliance Library of the datacenter.
Open the Datacenter After Creation
Mark the 
checkbox.
Modifying a Datacenter
| API feature This feature is available in the API. See Datacenter Resource. |
The following image shows the pop-up for modifying a datacenter. The information that can be entered in this pop-up is identical to that for creating a datacenter.
The following actions are allowed in the remote services tab:
| Button | Action |
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Add a remote service to the datacenter. |
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Remove the selected remote service. |
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Check the status of the selected remote service. |
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Edit the selected remote service. |
Deleting a Datacenter
To delete a datacenter, first delete any virtual datacenters defined within it. For more information, see Manage Virtual Datacenters.
Then click the remove button in the bottom-left part of the DATACENTERS screen.
