In VMware Cloud Director, you can allocate IP prefixes to an IP space to be used for the configuration of networks.

An IP prefix block is defined by the starting block of the sequence - the IP prefix, and the number of IP prefix blocks in that sequence.

Prerequisites

Verify that your role includes the IP Spaces:View and IP Spaces:Configure rights.

Procedure

  1. From the top navigation bar, select Resources and click Cloud Resources.
  2. In the left pane, click IP Spaces.
  3. Click the name of the IP space to which you want to allocate IP prefixes.
  4. Click General and scroll down to the IP Prefixes section.
  5. Click Edit.
  6. Click Add.
  7. Add the first IP address of the IP prefix sequence.
  8. Enter a number of prefixes that you want to allocate.
  9. Click Save.