Create network interfaces in a VM

If you deploy a VM without configuring a network interface, the platform will automatically assign an address in the default network.

Your administrator may create or obtain multiple IP addresses for your virtual datacenters under Virtual datacenters → Networks.

Create NICs and IP addresses

To create NICs and attach them to a VM:

1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Virtual appliances
2. If your VM is deployed and you are not using hot-reconfigure of NICs, shut down the VM
3. Edit the VM and go to Networks
4. Select a network type and a network. Network types include:
   
   1. Private networks with private IP addresses that only allow your VMs to communicate with others inside the same virtual datacenter.
   2. External networks that belong to an enterprise and allow VMs to communicate with machines outside their virtual datacenter
      
   3. Public networks with Internet addressable public IP addresses that may be required to access your VM in public cloud
   4. Subnets of global networks that are required to deploy in Google Cloud Platform and that enable you to access cloud services without general internet access  
5. Depending on the network type, you may be able to:
   
   • Request an automatically created NIC and IP by dragging and dropping "Automatically generated IP" to your VM. This IP address will be created and assigned at deploy time.
     
   • Create a new IP address and NIC by clicking the + add button, which requires the Manage virtual network elements privilege 
   • Purchase a public IP address by clicking the Purchase public IPs button
   • Create a new NIC by dragging an IP address into the IPs pane
     
     
     
     

   For each VM your administrator may limit the total number of network interfaces and/or the number of network interfaces in the same network

Optionally set Default gateway

In the Default gateway box, optionally select an address to be the default gateway of the VM.