Manage global networks and subnets

There are two types of networks specific to the Google Cloud Platform integration: global networks and their subnets. Global networks are private VPC networks that span different regions. So each global network may be available in different cloud locations. When you onboard or synchronize a region, the platform will update all global networks and all the subnets from the synchronized region.

To be able to deploy a VM in the Google Cloud Platform, users must add an IP in a subnet of a global network, and this means that each virtual datacenter must have a subnet. To correctly deploy VMs with automatically selected IP addresses, add the subnet as the default network of the virtual datacenter.

To view and manage the global networks:

1. Go to the virtual datacenters myCloud view
2. Click the globe Global section button 

From the Global section, you can onboard or synchronize the Global networks in a selected region, and their subnets.

To create a global network:

1. Go to myCloud virtual datacenters view → Global
2. Select a Google provider
3. On the Global networks page, click the + add button  and complete the dialog

For more details see GUI Create global network

To be able to deploy VMs in Google Cloud Platform, you will need to add private subnet IP addresses to your VMs. To obtain these IP addresses, create subnets of your global networks, and assign them to your virtual datacenters.

You can set a subnet as the default network to automatically create IP addresses if the user does not create a VM network configuration.

To create a custom mode subnet:

1. Go to myCloud virtual datacenters view → Global
2. Select a Google provider
3. Select a global network
4. On the Subnets page, click the + add button and complete the dialog

For more details see GUI Create subnet

To create multiple IP addresses in a subnet:

1. Select Multiple IPs
2. Enter the Number of IPs to create
3. Optionally enter the From IP address (the first address) within the given Subnet CIDR. The From IP address must be a new address that does not already exist in the network. 

After creating the first IP address, the platform will try to create the other IPs and it will skip any existing IP addresses. All the IP addresses will be ephemeral.

To create a single IP address:

1. Select Single IP
2. Optionally enter the IP address
3. To create an IP address that will not persist when you undeploy or stop the VM, select Ephemeral.
   Or to create a static IP,  enter a Name for your IP address. The platform will include this name in the provider ID.