External Network profiles in vCAC enable you to create a range of IP addresses that can used to statically assign IP address to provisioned workloads in your environment. There are two part to an External Network Profile. There is the Network Profile Information in which you specify the network specific information such as netmask, gateway, DNS Server, Suffixes, and WINs Servers. Then there is the IP ranges these can be one contiguous range of IP address or multiple ranges within the subnet that are broken up.
The Network profile is then assigned to a network within a Reservation and any machine provisioned to that reservation an attached to a network will get it’s IP information form the assigned Network profile. There are a number of ways to utilize External Network Profiles within vCAC , below are some examples:
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