Technical Tips

How to configure an ESXi host to support VLAN tagging

As part the infrastructure of your multi-cloud platform, a DHCP server or gateway will need to access multiple networks, which will usually be on different virtual LANs (VLANs). A typical VLAN configuration will connect networks to a switch port in trunk mode, and the...

What is cloud orchestration?

All companies pursue the same objective: the expansion of their business. However, to make this happen, technology is needed with the aim of achieving a strong market position and additional competitive advantage.  The idea is to prosper in a world in which the...

Determine the size of a VM disk file

Introduction to VM disk file sizes When you launch a virtual machine, the hypervisor or public cloud region will deploy one or more VM disk files. To launch a VM, most hypervisors require the disk size, and this article describes how to get the size from the command...

Export an OVA from ESXi vSphere 6.7 with OVF tool

An introduction to OVA To move virtual machines between platforms it is common to create an OVA. An OVA (open virtualization appliance) is a compressed package that contains a VM disk and its descriptor in OVF (open virtualization format). As of version 6.5, vSphere...

Using vCenter metrics to drive the cloud with Abiquo 4.4

Written by Marc Cirauqui, Support Engineer @ Abiquo Abiquo enables you to use metrics from virtual machines, applications and physical host machines to drive Action Plans, which can be used to auto scale VMs in the same or another cloud (“Cloud bursting”), and to...

How to do cloud bursting with Abiquo 4.4

Introduction to Cloud Bursting and Action plans in Abiquo According to Gartner, “Cloud bursting is the use of an alternative set of public or private cloud-based services as a way to augment and handle peaks in IT system requirements at startup or during runtime....

Deploying applications with Terraform

Written by Antxon González, Support Engineer @ Abiquo Introduction Imagine that you need to develop a cloud-based application, and you will use Abiquo for its development, testing and production. During the development and testing stages, you will have to configure,...

Deploying kubernetes in Abiquo using Rancher

You probably read something about kubernetes on a daily basis, but still, I will show you a way to easily deploy kubernetes clusters in Abiquo using the recently launched Rancher 2.0.

Using Terraform with Abiquo

Written by Antxon González, Support Engineer @ Abiquo What is Terraform? Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code software that allows you to manage and provision resources in different providers through a declarative language to describe the desired results. Terraform...

How you can manage templates in Abiquo using Packer

One of the questions we most frequently get from customers is regarding the management of the templates catalogue. In Abiquo, every enterprise has its own appliance library where templates are stored and can be added to the library in many different ways.Templates...