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Reserve IP in Range Workflow
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Reserve IP in Range Workflow

Owned by Jyothi KP
Jul 07, 2022

Use the Reserve IP in range workflow to allocate an IPv4 or IPv6 address within a specific DHCP address range to a virtual machine on your network. When you use this workflow, the NIOS appliance obtains the next available IP address within the defined address range and creates the specified IPAM records. Note that allocating the next available IP address and creating a host record with it is performed by a single addHostInRange action within this workflow.
You can choose which IPAM object to create in this workflow:

  • Host record
  • A/AAAA record with or without an associated PTR record
  • CNAME records related to the created A/AAAA record
  • Fixed address or reservation

Using the Reserve IP in range workflow, you can assign extensible attributes to the created objects.

To reserve an IP address in a network range:

  1. Log in to the vCenter Orchestrator client.
  2. Choose Run mode.
  3. On the Workflows tab, select the administrator entry –> Library –> IPAM.
  4. Right-click the Reserve IP in range workflow and choose Start workflow.
  5. Complete the Connection step to establish the connection to the NIOS IPAM appliance: click the Connection to the IPAM server field. Expand Infoblox IPAM and select the IP address of the Infoblox NIOS Grid member. Click Select.
  6. Click Next.
  7. In the Network range step, specify the start address and end address of the network range and, optionally, a network view.
  8. In the Common parameters step, specify the records to create as described in Step 8 of the section Reserve IP Address Workflow.
  9. Click Next.
  10. (Optional) In the Extensible attributes step, specify the number of, and the values for, any extensible attributes that you want to assign to the records or objects that will be created in the result of the workflow execution. For more information about extensible attributes, see Extensible Attributes in IPAM Workflows.
  11. Click Next.
  12. Specify if restarting the DHCP service is needed. When you select Yes, the DHCP service will be restarted when it is required by NIOS configuration. For more information, see Appendix E, "Operations Requiring Service Restart".
  13. Click Submit.