Create racks

Before you add a Physical Machine to a Datacenter, you need to create the Rack it will belong to.

A rack is a logical set of Physical Machines providing the same level of compute service.

Each rack also defines a VLAN pool for all the physical machines inside the rack. This pool is used to provide Private networks to Virtual Datacenters.

To create a rack:

Privilege: Access infrastructure view and Private DCs, View datacenter details, Manage datacenter infrastructure elements

Go to Infrastructure → Private → select a datacenter
At the bottom of the Physical servers list, click the + add button and select Rack
Enter the Name and optional values
Go to Network
1. For Network ID min and Network ID max, enter the range of the VLAN or VXLAN tags to use on this rack for private networks
2. In Excluded VLAN IDs, enter a comma-separated list of ranges (with a dash "-") and/or individual tags that you will use for other networks.
3. In Reserved VLANs per VDC enter the number of VLANs that you expect VDCs to use. Note that this is not a real reservation, but it will prevent the creation of too many VDCs on the rack!
4. In VLAN pool size enter the number of VLANs to reserve for VDCs that use more than the expected number
Click Save

Related pages:

UI reference: GUI Create rack General information and GUI Create rack Network
Tune VLAN parameters for racks