You can define a cloud template to obtain and manage IP address assignments from your external IPAM provider. This example uses Infoblox as the external IPAM provider.
In this final step in the external IPAM integration workflow, you define and deploy a cloud template that connects your previously defined network and network profile to your organization's Infoblox account to obtain and manage IP address assignments for deployed VMs from the external IPAM provider rather than from VMware Aria Automation.
This workflow uses Infoblox as the external IPAM provider and in some steps, the example values are unique to Infoblox, although the intent is that the procedure can be applied to other external IPAM integrations.
The Automate IPAM and DNS for VMs using VMware vRealize Automation and Infoblox DDI Infoblox blog provides related information.
After you deploy the cloud template and the VM is started, the IP address used for each VM in the deployment appears as a network entry in the vSphere Web Client record for each deployed VM in the host vCenter.
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This sequence of steps is shown in the context of an external IPAM provider integration workflow. See Tutorial: Configuring a provider-specific external IPAM integration for VMware Aria Automation.
- Verify that you have cloud administrator credentials. See Credentials required for working with cloud accounts in VMware Aria Automation.
- Verify that you have the cloud administrator user role. See What are the VMware Aria Automation user roles.
- Verify that you have an account with the external IPAM provider, for example Infoblox or BlueCat, and that you have the correct access credentials to your organization's account with the IPAM provider.
- Verify that you have administrator access to the host account and any role requirements needed to display status records in the vSphere web client record for your deployed VMs in the host vCenter.
- Verify that you have an IPAM integration point for the external IPAM provider. See Add an external IPAM integration for Infoblox in VMware Aria Automation.
- Verify that you have configured a VMware Aria Automation network and network profile that support external IPAM integration for your intended IPAM integration point. See Configure a network and network profile to use external IPAM for an existing network in VMware Aria Automation.
- Verify that your project and cloud zone are tagged to match tags in the IPAM integration point and network or network profile. Optionally configure the project to support custom resource naming.
For more information about the role of a project and cloud zone, and the role of other infrastructure elements in your cloud template, see Tutorial: Setting up and testing multi-cloud infrastructure and deployments in Automation Assembler. For more information about tagging, see How do I use tags to manage Automation Assembler resources and deployments.
For information about custom naming VMs by using settings in your project, see Create project-by-project custom names for deployed resources in Automation Assembler.