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<section id="vlan-allocation-eg">
  <title>VLAN Allocation Example</title>
  <para>VLANs are required for public and guest traffic. The following is an example of a VLAN
    allocation scheme:</para>
  <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="3" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
      <thead>
        <row>
          <entry><para>VLAN IDs</para></entry>
          <entry><para>Traffic type</para></entry>
          <entry><para>Scope</para></entry>
        </row>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry><para>less than 500</para></entry>
          <entry><para>Management traffic. Reserved for administrative purposes.</para></entry>
          <entry><para>&PRODUCT; software can access this, hypervisors, system VMs.</para></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><para>500-599</para></entry>
          <entry><para>VLAN carrying public traffic.</para></entry>
          <entry><para>&PRODUCT; accounts.</para></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><para>600-799</para></entry>
          <entry><para>VLANs carrying guest traffic.</para></entry>
          <entry><para>&PRODUCT; accounts. Account-specific VLAN is chosen from this
            pool.</para></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><para>800-899</para></entry>
          <entry><para>VLANs carrying guest traffic.</para></entry>
          <entry><para>&PRODUCT; accounts. Account-specific VLAN chosen by &PRODUCT; admin to assign
              to that account.</para></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><para>900-999</para></entry>
          <entry><para>VLAN carrying guest traffic</para></entry>
          <entry><para>&PRODUCT; accounts. Can be scoped by project, domain, or all
            accounts.</para></entry>
        </row>
        <row>
          <entry><para>greater than 1000</para></entry>
          <entry><para>Reserved for future use</para></entry>
          <entry></entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>
</section>