Citrix Systems 4.2 Switch User Manual


 
Reserving Public IP Addresses and VLANs for Accounts
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16.14. Reserving Public IP Addresses and VLANs for
Accounts
CloudPlatform provides you the ability to reserve a set of public IP addresses and VLANs exclusively
for an account. During zone creation, you can continue defining a set of VLANs and multiple public
IP ranges. This feature extends the functionality to enable you to dedicate a fixed set of VLANs and
guest IP addresses for a tenant.
Note that if an account has consumed all the VLANs and IPs dedicated to it, the account can acquire
two more resources from the system. CloudPlatform provides the root admin with two configuration
parameter to modify this default behavior—use.system.public.ips and use.system.guest.vlans. These
global parameters enable the root admin to disallow an account from acquiring public IPs and guest
VLANs from the system, if the account has dedicated resources and these dedicated resources have
all been consumed. Both these configurations are configurable at the account level.
This feature provides you the following capabilities:
Reserve a VLAN range and public IP address range from an Advanced zone and assign it to an
account
Disassociate a VLAN and public IP address range from an account
View the number of public IP addresses allocated to an account
Check whether the required range is available and is conforms to account limits.
The maximum IPs per account limit cannot be superseded.
16.14.1. Dedicating IP Address Ranges to an Account
1. Log in to the CloudPlatform UI as administrator.
2. In the left navigation bar, click Infrastructure.
3. In Zones, click View All.
4. Choose the zone you want to work with.
5. Click the Physical Network tab.
6. In the Public node of the diagram, click Configure.
7. Click the IP Ranges tab.
You can either assign an existing IP range to an account, or create a new IP range and assign to
an account.
8. To assign an existing IP range to an account, perform the following:
a. Locate the IP range you want to work with.
b.
Click Add Account button.
The Add Account dialog is displayed.
c. Specify the following:
Account: The account to which you want to assign the IP address range.