Network Pod page

The Network Pod page lets you define networks that are shared across all of the environments in a vCenter connector. For instance, many cloud environments share a common management or storage network. Other networks are specific to one environment, such as production or development networks or networks made available to particular tenants. You define environment-specific networks when you add vCenter environments.

To create a network pod

Provide information about the network you are identifying that will be used to create the network pod.
You are not required to specify a network at the pod level. If you do not specify a network here, you must define at least one network when you add vCenter environments.

Option	Description
Port Group	The port group that aggregates the ports available to the network you are provisioning.
Management	A flag indicating whether the network is used for management purposes.
Customer	A flag indicating the network is used for customer purposes.
Network Alias	An identifying name for the network. Select from the list of typical aliases or enter your own name.
Gateway	Address of the IP router that is used to forward traffic to destinations outside of the local network. For example, 10.0.0.1.
Network	The IP address for this network. Available addresses within the network address can be further specified using the subnet value. For example, 10.0.0.0.
Subnet Mask	A range of IP addresses that are available to the network address. For example, 255.255.255.0.

At any time, you can discard the network information by clicking Remove. The network definition is removed. You can start defining a new network by clicking Add Network .

To exclude one or more IP addresses from a network, perform the following steps:
1. Click Add An Excluded IP or Range.
  Additional options appear. Use them to specify IP addresses that should be excluded from the network you are currently defining. Typically, you exclude a network address when it is already being used for other purposes.
2. To specify one IP address to exclude, enter a value for Start IP Address. To specify a range of IP addresses, enter a value for Start IP Address and End IP Address.
3. Repeat the previous steps to specify another address or range of addresses to exclude.
  To remove an excluded address or range of addresses, click Remove.

(Optional) To configure DNS registration details for the pod, perform the following steps:

Click Add DNS Registration details.
Additional options appear. Use the following table to specify the DNS registration details for the pod.

Option	Description
Primary DNS Server	A valid host name or IP address of the primary DNS server.
Reverse DNS Server	A valid host name or IP address of the reverse DNS server that allows reverse lookup of the IP address.
Secondary DNS Server	A valid host name or IP address of the secondary DNS server.
Primary Domain Fix	The primary domain fix for the NIC.
DNS Domains	The DNS domains for the NIC. You can specify multiple domains in a comma-separated list.
Reverse DNS Zone	The reverse DNS zone where the PTR-record type stores reverse DNS entries.

To remove the DNS registration details, click Remove.

When you complete a definition for a network, click Keep (at top right).
Quick Start shows a summary of the network definition.

To remove a definition for a network, click Remove.
To define an additional network, click Add Network and repeat the previous steps.

End-to-end Quick Start process

For a complete description of the Quick Start process for VMware vCenter, see Provisioning VMs on VMware vCenter using Quick Start.

Network Pod page

To create a network pod

End-to-end Quick Start process

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