Step 1
| Choose
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Step 2
| On the
Resource Groups page, click
Resource Groups.
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Step 3
| Click the row with a resource group and click View to view the name and description of the resource group. |
Step 4
| Click the row with a resource group and click View Details to view the resources that are associated with a resource group.
The ID, pod, account name, category, account type, resource type, and resource name of the resources in the resource group are displayed.
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Step 5
| Click the row with a resource and click View Details to view the capacities and capabilities of a resource. |
Step 6
| Click
Add.
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Step 7
| On the Create Resource Group screen, complete the following fields:
Name |
Description |
Name field
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The name of the resource group.
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Description field
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The description of the resource group.
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Enable DR check box
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Check to enable the disaster recovery service support for the resource group.
Note
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The disaster recovery service support is enabled based on the use case and the workflow being executed.
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Accounts Priority drop-down list
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This field appears only when Enable DR is checked. By default, Primary is selected to set the resource group as primary. If you want to set the resource group as secondary, choose Secondary.
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DRS Resource Group drop-down list
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Choose a resource group as a disaster recovery service resource group for handling failover and recovering data during disaster.
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Note
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The primary and secondary resource groups must each have an equal number of accounts in order to support the disaster recovery service.
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Step 8
| Click
Next.
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Step 9
| (Optional)On the Virtual Compute screen, choose the virtual compute account and the interested capabilities and capacities: - Expand Virtual Accounts and click the + icon to add a virtual account.
- On the Add Entry to Virtual Accounts screen, expand Accounts, check the virtual account that you want to use, and then click Validate.
Note
| You can choose either a VMware account or a Hyper-V account from the account list. According to the chosen virtual account, you need to choose environment variable, capabilities, and capacities. If the required environment variable is not available in the drop-down list, you can create a new environment variable. For more information on how to create an environment variable, see Adding a Custom Environment Variable. |
- Expand Environment Variables and click the + icon.
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On the Add Entry to Environment Variables screen, choose an environment variable from the Name drop-down list.
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In the Required Value field, choose the value according to the selected environment variable. When you choose IP Subnet Pool Policy from the Name drop-down list, expand Required Value and check the policy that you want to use. You can also add a policy by clicking the + icon.
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Click Submit.
- In the Selected Capabilities field, the capabilities of the chosen virtual account appear by default.
You can opt to disable the capabilities by unchecking the capability in the edit window that appears on clicking the Edit icon. You can remove the capability from the list by clicking the Delete icon.
- In the Selected Capacities field, the capacities of the chosen virtual account appear by default.
You can opt to disable the capacities by unchecking the capacity in the edit window that appears on clicking the Edit icon. You can remove the capacity from the list by clicking the Delete icon.
- Click Submit on the Add Entry to Virtual Accounts screen.
Note
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An account that is added to a resource group cannot be added to another resource group and cannot be deleted from Cisco UCS Director.
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Step 10
| Click
Next.
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Step 11
| On the Virtual Storage screen, expand Virtual Accounts click the row with the virtual compute account and the interested capabilities and capacities. - Click the + icon to add a virtual account.
- On the Add Entry to Virtual Accounts screen, expand Accounts, check the virtual account you want to use, and click Validate.
Note
| You can choose either a VMware account or a Hyper-V account from the account list. According to the chosen virtual account, you need to choose environment variable, capabilities, and capacities. If the required environment variable is not available in the drop-down list, you can create a new environment variable. For more information on how to create an environment variable, see Adding a Custom Environment Variable. |
- Expand Environment Variables and click the + icon.
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On the Add Entry to Environment Variables screen, choose an environment variablefrom the Name drop-down list.
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In the Required Value field, choose the value according to the selected environment variable.
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Click Submit.
- In the Selected Capabilities field, the capabilities of the chosen virtual account appear by default.
You can opt to disable the capabilities by unchecking the capability in the edit window that appears on clicking the Edit icon. You can remove the capability from the list by clicking the Delete icon.
- In the Selected Capacities field, the capacities of the chosen virtual account appear by default.
You can opt to disable the capacities by unchecking the capacity in the edit window that appears on clicking the Edit icon. You can remove the capacity from the list by clicking the Delete icon.
- Click Submit on the Add Entry to Virtual Accounts screen.
Note
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An account that is added to a resource group cannot be added to another resource group and cannot be deleted from Cisco UCS Director.
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Step 12
| Click
Next.
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Step 13
| On the Virtual Network screen, expand Virtual Accounts and click the row with the virtual network account and the interested capabilities and capacities: - Click the + icon to add a virtual account.
- On the Add Entry to Virtual Accounts screen, expand Accounts, check the virtual account that you want to use, and click Validate.
Note
| You can choose either a VMware account or a Hyper-V account from the account list. According to the chosen virtual account, you need to choose environment variable, capabilities, and capacities. If the required environment variable is not available in the drop-down list, you can create a new environment variable. For more information on how to create an environment variable, see Adding a Custom Environment Variable. |
- Expand Environment Variables and click the + icon.
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On the Add Entry to Environment Variables screen, choose an environment variable from the Name drop-down list.
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Expand Required Value field and check the value according to the selected environment variable that you want to use in the environment.
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Click Submit.
- In the Selected Capabilities field, the capabilities of the chosen virtual account appear by default.
You can opt to disable the capabilities by unchecking the capability in the edit window that appears on clicking the Edit icon. You can remove the capability from the list by clicking the Delete icon.
- In the Selected Capacities field, the capacities of the chosen virtual account appear by default.
You can opt to disable the capacities by unchecking the capacity in the edit window that appears on clicking the Edit icon. You can remove the capacity from the list by clicking the Delete icon.
- Click Submit on the Add Entry to Virtual Accounts screen.
Note
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An account that is added to a resource group cannot be added to another resource group and cannot be deleted from Cisco UCS Director.
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Step 14
| Click
Next.
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Step 15
| (Optional)On the Physical Compute screen, expand Compute Accounts and click the row with the physical compute account and the interested capabilities and capacities: - Click the + icon to add a compute account.
- On the Add Entry to Compute Accounts screen, check the compute account that you want to use, and click Validate.
- Expand Environment Variables and click the + icon.
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On the Add Entry to Environment Variables screen, choose an environment variable from the Name drop-down list.
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Expand Required Value field, and check the value according to the selected environment variable. When you choose Vlan pool from the Name drop-down list, expand Required Value and check the policy that you want to use. You can also add a policy by clicking the + icon.
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Click Submit.
- Expand Selected Capabilities and click on the row with the resource and resource capability that you want to use.
- Expand Selected Capacities and click on the row with the resource and resource capacities that you want to use.
- Click Submit on the Add Entry to Compute Accounts screen.
Note
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An account that is added to a resource group cannot be added to another resource group and cannot be deleted from Cisco UCS Director.
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Step 16
| Click
Next.
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Step 17
| (Optional)On the Physical Storage screen, expand Storage Accounts and click the row with the physical storage account and the interested capabilities and capacities: - Click the + icon to add a storage account.
- On the Add Entry to Storage Accounts screen, check the storage account that you want to use, and click Validate.
- Expand Environment Variables and click the + icon.
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In the Add Entry to Environment Variables dialog box, choose an environment variable from the Name drop-down list.
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Expand Required Value and check the value according to the selected environment variable. When you choose Vlan pool from the Name drop-down list, expand Required Value and check the policy that you want to use. You can also add a policy by clicking the + icon.
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Click Submit.
The IP address and subnet mask of the storage device must be within the IP address range specified based on the policy.
- Expand Selected Capabilities and click on the row with the resource and resource capability that you want to use.
- Expand Selected Capacities and click on the row with the resource and resource capacities that you want to use.
- Click Submit on the Add Entry to Storage Accounts screen.
Note
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An account that is added to a resource group cannot be added to another resource group and cannot be deleted from Cisco UCS Director.
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Step 18
| Click
Next.
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Step 19
| (Optional)On the Physical Network screen, expand Network Accounts and click the row with the physical network account and the interested capabilities and capacities: - Click the + icon to add a network account.
- On the Add Entry to Network Accounts screen, choose the storage account.
- Expand Environment Variables and click the + icon.
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On the Add Entry to Environment Variables screen, choose an environment variable from the Name drop-down list.
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Expand Required Value and check the value according to the selected environment variable. When you choose IP Pool from the Name drop-down list, expand Required Value and check the policy that you want to use.
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Click Submit.
- Expand Selected Capabilities and click the + icon.
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On the Add Entry to Selected Capabilities screen, choose FC Capability on MDS or Zone Support from the Select Resource drop-down list.
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In the Resource Capability field, choose a value from the list of values that are displayed according to the selected resource.
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Click Submit.
- Expand Selected Capacities and click on the row with the resource and resource capacities that you want to use.
- Click Submit on the Add Entry to Network Accounts screen.
Note
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An account that is added to a resource group cannot be added to another resource group and cannot be deleted from Cisco UCS Director.
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Step 20
| Click
Next.
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Step 21
| On the L4L7 Devices screen, choose the firewall specification and load balancer specification: - Expand Firewall Specification and click the + icon. On the Add Entry to Firewall Specification screen, complete the following fields:
Name |
Description |
Firewall Type drop-down list
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Choose VIRTUAL or PHYSICAL as the firewall type.
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The following fields appear when you choose VIRTUAL as the firewall type:
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Virtual Accounts field
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Expand Virtual Accounts and check the virtual account you want to use.
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VM Deployment Policy drop-down list
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Choose a VM deployment policy. Click the + icon to add a VM deployment policy. For more information about how to add a VM deployment policy, see the Adding an ASAv VM Deployment Policy section in the Cisco UCS Director Application Container Guide.
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Firewall Management Port Group field
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Expand Firewall Management Port Group and check the port group of vCenter that you want to use. The management interface will be placed in the chosen port group during ASAv deployment.
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Management IP Pool field
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Expand Management IP Pool and check the IP pool that you want to use for assigning management IP address.
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Regular HA IP Pool field
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Expand Regular HA IP Pool and check the IP pool (private IP range) to allocate IP address from the pool. This pool is used as failover link between primary and secondary ASA devices. This pool is used when the firewall HA is enabled in the Layer 4 through Layer 7 service policy.
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Stateful HA IP Pool field
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Expand Stateful HA IP Pool and check the IP pool (private IP range) to allocate IP address from the pool. This pool is used as state link between primary and secondary Cisco ASA devices. This pool is used when the stateful failover is enabled in the Layer 4 through Layer 7 service policy. The stateful HA IP pool and regular HA IP pool must be in different subnets to avoid network IP conflict.
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The following fields appear when you choose PHYSICAL as the firewall type.
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APIC Accounts field
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Expand APIC Accounts and check the APIC account that you want to use.
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Multi Context Enabled check box
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Check Multi Context Enabled if the multiple context configuration is enabled on the Cisco ASA device.
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Firewall Cluster IP field
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This field appears only when Multi Context Enabled is checked. The IP address of the physical Cisco ASA device. This IP address is configured as the Admin Context IP address.
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Cluster Username field
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This field appears only when Multi Context Enabled is checked. The username of the cluster that is used by APIC to access ASA.
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Cluster Password field
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This field appears only when Multi Context Enabled is checked. The password of the cluster that is used by APIC to access ASA.
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Firewall/Context IP field
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The IP address that is used to reach the firewall device. If Multi Context Enabled is checked, this field collects the User Context IP address of the virtual ASA device that is configured on Day 0.
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Port field
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The port number of the firewall device.
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Username field
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The username that is used to access the firewall device. If Multi Context Enabled is checked, this field collects the username of the user context.
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Password field
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The password that is used to access the firewall device. If Multi Context Enabled is checked, this field collects the password of the user context.
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Physical Domain field
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Expand Physical Domain and check the physical domain that you want to use. Click the + icon to add a physical domain.
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Static Path field
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Expand Static Path and check the static path that you want to use. Cisco UCS Director displays the path types, such as VPC and leaf, in the table.
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Port Channel Name field
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The port channel interface of the Cisco ASA device which is connected to leaf (for example, Po1, Port-channel1).
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Channel Group Id field
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The unique ID of the channel group. This field appears only when Multi Context Enabled is unchecked.
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Port Channel Member Interfaces field
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The interface name(s) of the port channel member. This field appears only when Multi Context Enabled is unchecked.
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Enter the interface name without space. If there are more than one interfaces, enter the interface names separated by comma.
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- Click Submit.
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If the multiple context is enabled on the Cisco ASA device, repeat the firewall specification to add the details for each context.
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- Expand Load Balancer Specification, click the + icon. On the Add Entry to Load Balancer Specification screen, complete the following fields:
Name |
Description |
Load Balancer Type drop-down list
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Choose Virtual or Physical as the load balancer type.
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Virtual Accounts field
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This field appears when you choose the load balancer type as Virtual. Expand Virtual Accounts and check the virtual account that you want to use.
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APIC Accounts field
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This field appears when you choose the load balancer type as Physical. Expand APIC Accounts and check the APIC account that you want to use.
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Load Balancer IP field
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The IP address that is used to reach the NetScalar device.
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Port field
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The port number of the NetScalar device.
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Load Balancer Gateway field
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The gateway IP address of the NetScalar device.
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Username field
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The username that is used to access the NetScalar device.
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Password field
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The password that is used to access the NetScalar device.
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Function Profile field
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Optional. Expand Function Profile and check the function profile that you want to use.
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VMs field
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This field appears when you choose the load balancer type as Virtual. Expand VMs and check the VM that you want to use.
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Physical Domain field
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This field appears when you choose the load balancer type as Physical. Expand Physical Domain and check the physical domain that you want to use. Click the + icon to add a physical domain.
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Interface field
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This field appears when you choose the load balancer type as Physical. The interface that is used for the device cluster configuration (for example, LA_1).
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Static Path field
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This field appears when you choose the load balancer type as Physical. Expand Static Path and check the static path that you want to use.
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- Click Submit.
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Step 22
| Click
Submit.
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