## Allocating IP Addresses

Note: This section describes the IP addresses management available from the Provider Control Center. The special paragraph is devoted to IP addresses management for Resellers, using the Reseller Control Center.

The IP addresses assets assigned to the Parallels Business Automation - Standard cluster are managed by groups (IP pools).

Provider can add IP pools using the Service Director - IP Manager. The IP Manager allows you to automate the configuration of IP address properties such as addresses of the DNS servers and default gateways for Containers.

You can define only static allocation within each IP pool. Static IP addresses are allocated permanently and can be released only manually.

Using the IP Manager you can track the usage of IP addresses in the frame of services provided. The list of leases is provided for each IP pool. This list shows which Containers are using particular IP addresses.

To restrict usage of certain IP addresses within an IP pool, you can create exclusions that cover a single IP address or series of IP addresses.

IP pools can be assigned to specific resellers or hardware nodes or types of hosting:

- Assigning an IP pool to a specific type of hosting means that IP addresses from this IP pool will be used for provisioning of particular type of services. This assignment is exclusive, i.e., it is not possible to assign an IP pool to several types of hosting. You can allocate an IP pool for:
  - Virtuozzo Containers.
  - Name-based Virtuozzo Containers.
  - Plesk Domain hosting.
  - Dedicated servers.
- Assigning an IP pool to a reseller means that customers of this reseller will use IP addresses from the IP pool assigned.
- Assigning an IP pool to a Hardware Node means that IP addresses from the IP pool assigned will be allocated, for example, to Containers hosted on this Hardware Node only.This is extremely useful if you have different network segments in your infrastructure. In this case, you can assign particular IP pools to corresponding Hardware Nodes in segment. In case Containers will be migrated from one Hardware Node to another, IP addresses will be reassigned automatically.
- Assigning an IP pool to a group of nodes means that IP addresses from the IP pool assigned will be allocated, for example, to Containers hosted on nodes included in this group.

In This Section Creating IP Pools

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