The Abiquo Infrastructure Management (AIM) is a collection of services that manage the deployment of virtual machines, the local event system and the vlan management. AIM must be installed in each node machine that works with the KVM hypervisor.
There are five three services available:
- Rimp (repository importer) enables the creation of virtual image instances from the shared repository into the local file system datastore, and cloning it from the datastore back to the repository.
- EventsMonitor manages the subscription, unsubscription and notification of the events produced by the virtual machines on the XEN and KVM hypervisors. The plugin uses libvirt to detect the events.
- VLAN service Manages the creation and deletion of VLAN and Bridge on the XEN, KVM and VirtualBox hypervisors. The network configuration is persistent using Cent OS network configuration files under /etc/sysconfig/network- scripts.
- Storage service manages the iSCSI storage configuration.
- Libvirt service provides access to the libvirt API.
[server]
port = 60606
[rimp]
repository = /opt/nfs-devel
autoBackup = false
autoRestore = false
- repository, repository mount point
- autoBackup, on undeploy if autoBackup=true, then disk is backed up rather than deleted from the datastore .
- autoRestore, on deploy if autoRestore=true, then disk is restored from a previous backed up disk rather than copied from repository.
[root@localhost ~]# abiquo-aim --help
Usage: abiquo-aim options
-h --help Show this help
-c --config-file=<file> Alternate configuration file
-d --daemon Run as daemon
-v --version Show AIM server version
-t --threads Maximum threads to handle requests
By default the server is listening at 60606 port, starts a thread pool of 4 threads and loads the configuration file named aim.ini
AIM writes log messages in the stderr and /var/log/messages
'ifcfg-abiquo_3' bridge configuration file
DEVICE=abiquo_3
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=none
'ifcfg-abiquo_eth2.3' VLAN configuration file
VLAN=yes
DEVICE=eth2.3
BOOTPROTO=none
BRIDGE=abiquo_3