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Data Director supports DHCP and IP pool options for network configuration. An IP pool consists of blocks of
IP addresses that Data Director can allocate to virtual machines on the Internal Network or DB Access Network.
Data Director system administrators manage IP pools from the Network pane of the System Settings tab.
Data Director networks are generally configured during installation. System administrators and users with
Resource management privileges can make changes later, but you should consider the following points.
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Ensure that the IP addresses in the IP pool are free, and that they remain free for IP pool use.
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Networks with the same name (port group) share the same IP pool and must constitute a real subnet.
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Changes to the DB Access Network take effect when you restart the databases. See “Batch Operations and
Scheduled Tasks,” on page 119.
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Changes to the Internal Network take effect immediately.
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Switching IP allocation policy between IP pool and DHCP requires that there is no DBVM or there is no
DBVM running, otherwise the switching operation will fail.
System administrators perform the following IP pool management tasks.
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Add, edit, and delete IP pool for specific Data Director networks.
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Reconfigure the Internal Network to use the IP pool network option.
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Reconfigure the DB Access Network to use the IP pool network option.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Add an IP Pool,” on page 191
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“Edit IP Pool,” on page 192
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“Delete an IP Pool,” on page 192
Add an IP Pool
Data Director system administrators and users with Manage Resource and Manage System Settings privileges
can expand the IP addresses available to the Internal and DB Access networks by adding IP pool.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your Data Director networks are configured to use IP pool.
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Guarantee that the IP addresses are free.
Procedure
1 Log in to Data Director as a system administrator or as a user with Resource Management privileges.
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