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| <section id="release-ip-for-vpc"> |
| <title>Releasing an IP Address Alloted to a VPC</title> |
| <para>The IP address is a limited resource. If you no longer need a particular IP, you can |
| disassociate it from its VPC and return it to the pool of available addresses. An IP address can |
| be released from its tier, only when all the networking ( port forwarding, load balancing, or |
| StaticNAT ) rules are removed for this IP address. The released IP address will still belongs to |
| the same VPC.</para> |
| <orderedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Log in to the &PRODUCT; UI as an administrator or end user.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>In the left navigation, choose Network.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>In the Select view, select VPC.</para> |
| <para>All the VPCs that you have created for the account is listed in the page.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Click the Configure button of the VPC whose IP you want to release.</para> |
| <para>The VPC page is displayed where all the tiers you created are listed in a |
| diagram.</para> |
| <para>The following options are displayed.</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Internal LB</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Public LB IP</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Static NAT</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Virtual Machines</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>CIDR</para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| <para>The following router information is displayed:</para> |
| <itemizedlist> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Private Gateways</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Public IP Addresses</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Site-to-Site VPNs</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Network ACL Lists</para> |
| </listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Select Public IP Addresses.</para> |
| <para>The IP Addresses page is displayed.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>Click the IP you want to release.</para> |
| </listitem> |
| <listitem> |
| <para>In the Details tab, click the Release IP button <inlinemediaobject> |
| <imageobject> |
| <imagedata fileref="./images/release-ip-icon.png"/> |
| </imageobject> |
| <textobject> |
| <phrase>release-ip-icon.png: button to release an IP.</phrase> |
| </textobject> |
| </inlinemediaobject></para> |
| </listitem> |
| </orderedlist> |
| </section> |