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Working with Network Profiles
You can use the vRealize Automation IaaS proxy provider service and IPAM service REST API to create, list,
and update network proles.
You can access the following types of network prole by using the same programming calls. Dierent types
of network proles contain dierent elds.
Network Profile
Type Description
External All network proles use the elements in the object denition for external network. The network
denition species the network address conguration for the network. The external network
denition can specify:
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Existing network addresses congured on the vSphere server. They are the external part of the
NAT and routed networks types. An external network prole can dene a range of static IP
addresses available on the external network.
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An endpoint that allows access to IP ranges obtained from the supplied VMware internal IPAM
provider or an external IPAM provider solution that you have imported and registered in
vRealize Orchestrator, such as Infoblox IPAM, and existing network address ranges congured by
the IPAM provider software.
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An endpoint that allows access to IP ranges obtained from the supplied VMware internal IPAM
provider or an external IPAM provider solution that you have imported and registered in
vRealize Orchestrator, such as Infoblox IPAM, and existing network address ranges congured by
the IPAM provider software.
An external network prole with a static IP range is a prerequisite for NAT and routed networks.
When you specify a NAT network prole or a Routed network prole, the base object denition for
the external network prole is used and additional denitions for the NAT or Routed network proles
are required to complete the prole.
NAT An external network that uses network address translation (NAT) to enable one set of IP addresses for
external communication and another set for internal communications. With one-to-one NAT
networks, every virtual machine is assigned an external IP address from the external network prole
and an internal IP address from the NAT network prole. With one-to-many NAT networks, all
machines share a single IP address from the external network prole for external communication.
A NAT network prole denes local and external networks that use a translation table for mutual
communication.
Routed A routed network represents a routable IP space divided across subnets that are linked together using
Distributed Logical Router (DLR). Every new routed network has the next available subnet assigned
to it and is associated with other routed networks that use the same network prole. The virtual
machines that are provisioned with routed networks that have the same routed network prole can
communicate with each other and the external network.
A routed network prole denes a routable space and available subnets.
For more information about Distributed Logical Router, see NSX Administration Guide.
Get a Network Profile List
You can use the vRealize Automation REST API to get a list of current network proles.
Prerequisites
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Log in to vRealize Automation as a tenant administrator.
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Verify that the host name and fully qualied domain name of the vRealize Automation instance are
available.
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