Network and Storage

Network

The Network menu covers the network building blocks of every connected platform.

Area	What you manage
Locations	Regions and Zones. Constella maps each cloud's regions and availability zones onto its own, so lists can be filtered by location regardless of the provider.
Infrastructure	VPCs, VPC peering, route tables, and IP subnets. On private platforms such as VMware, the underlying layer-2 networks appear here as well.
Network Services	Elastic IPs, NAT gateways, and DNS zones.
Load Balancing	Load balancer instances with their listeners and back-end groups, access control lists, TLS certificates, and health checks.

Creating an item on a cloud (for example a VPC on AWS) creates it on that cloud. Items created directly on the cloud appear in Constella after the next sync.

IP subnets on VMware

For VMware accounts, Constella learns the port groups from vCenter. Before you create virtual machines through Constella, define an IP subnet for each port group you want to use: address range, gateway and VLAN. Constella then hands out addresses from that range.

Storage

Area	What you manage
Block Storage	The storage pools behind disks, for example VMware datastores or OpenStack volume types, with capacity and usage.
Object Storage	Buckets on public clouds and on S3-compatible, Ceph or XSKY storage. Browse objects, upload and download files, and set access policies.
NAS	File systems and their access groups on clouds that offer managed file storage.
Backup Storage	Targets that disk and instance backups are written to.

Disks themselves are managed under Compute.