This section describes how to install and configure hypervisors in Abiquo as cloud nodes.

Abiquo only supports hypervisors installed and configured as described in the corresponding documentation.

If you are integrating existing hypervisors, check this section to ensure they are compatible and properly configured.

Remember to consider the configuration limits of your hypervisors. Documentation is available for most hypervisors, for example, VMware Maximum Configurations.

Cloud Nodes

A cloud node is a server configured in Abiquo where the virtual resources assigned to each user are deployed.

Depending on the underlying virtualization technology, the Cloud node will require additional components to interoperate with Abiquo:

• KVM requires the Abiquo AIM agent in each KVM host.

• Docker requires the Abiquo Pilot agent in each Docker host.

VMWare, Hyper-V and XenServer do not require additional software to be installed.

Features Summary Table

The following table summarizes the hypervisor features available in the Abiquo platform.

Customers should always check the specific hypervisor features tables for further information.

		Virtualization technology
Features		vCenter/ vSphere ESXi	Hyper-V R2	KVM	Oracle VM	XenServer	Docker
General Information	Version	5.x, 6.0	R2	KVM 0.12	3.4	6.2.0	Docker 1.9
	Operating System or Profile	n/a	Server 2012 Core 2012	CentOS 7	x86 only	n/a	Ubuntu
Virtualization	VLAN Support for virtualizing DHCP		-		-		-
Sub Hypervisor	Name	ESXi	-	-	Oracle VM/Xen	Xen	-
Manager Hypervisor	Name	vCenter	Hyper-V Manager	-	OVM Manager	XenServer	-
	Direct Integration		-	-			-
	Compatibility		-	-	Check		-
Storage	Disk controllers	IDE, SCSI	IDE, SCSI	IDE, SCSI, VIRTIO	IDE, SCSI	IDE, SCSI	-
	Datastores	All	local disk, SMB	All	NFS	LVM, EXT3, NFS, iSCSI, HBA	-
External Storage	iSCSI storage	with iSCSI adapter or NFS				NFS/CIFS
	LUN Limit	iSCSI 256 LUNs per cluster	-	-	1000 LUNs per Oracle VM	-	-
	Secondary disks on Datastore						-
Storage Resize	Primary disk resize	thin-provisioned on SCSI controller only		VMDK sparse VHD			-
	Secondary disk resize	thin-provisioned on SCSI controller only					-
	Volume resize				-
Apps Library	Persistent virtual machines		VHD VHDX				-
	Instance
Move	VM Migration		set more frequent VSM polling		-		-
	Storage Migration	with vMotion of VM		QEMU	-		-
HA (choose one)	Hypervisor	With vCenter	Failover Clustering	-			-
	Abiquo	Without vCenter Experimental support for Abiquo HA with vCenter but without DVS.  This configuration is not recommended					-
Monitoring and Metrics	Hypervisor	With vCenter	-		-

VM movement support

Abiquo supports the following hypervisor VM movement functionality. Note that target datastore must always be enabled in Abiquo for detection to work as expected.

Hypervisor HA Support

Abiquo supports the following High Availability functionality. If both Abiquo and hypervisor HA are supported, you should choose only ONE of these. Note that the shared datastore must always be enabled in Abiquo.

Hypervisor	Abiquo HA	Hypervisor HA
ESX/ESXi	without vCenter Each rack should only contain hypervisors of the same major version Experimental support has been introduced for Abiquo HA with vCenter but without DVS. This configuration is not recommended	with vCenter
Hyper-V		Failover Clusters
KVM		-
Oracle
XenServer

See Configuring High Availability of VMs

Virtual machine templates

See Template Compatibility Table, Add VM Templates to the Apps Library and Importing Templates into the Appliance Library

Remote Access Support

Abiquo enables remote access to VMs through the eye icon. Abiquo includes the default noVNC program for VNC connections. The noVNC client interface can be branded. The Abiquo noVNC installation requires the websockify proxy. See Configure Remote Access to Virtual Machines