docs/en-US/non-contiguous-vlan.xml

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<section id="non-contiguous-vlan">
  <title>Non Contiguous VLAN Ranges</title>
  <para>&PRODUCT; provides you with the flexibility to add non contiguous VLAN ranges to your
    network. The administrator can either update an existing VLAN range or add multiple non
    contiguous VLAN ranges while creating a zone. You can also use the UpdatephysicalNetwork API to
    extend the VLAN range.</para>
  <section id="add-vlan-range">
    <title>Adding a New VLAN Range</title>
    <orderedlist>
      <listitem><para>Log in to the CloudPlatform UI as an administrator or end user.</para></listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Ensure that the VLAN range does not already exist.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Check whether the new VLAN range overlaps with any existing ones. If overlaps, extend
          the existing range. If does not overlap, add the new range.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>In the left navigation, choose Infrastructure. On Zones, click View More, then click the zone to
          which you want to work with.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Click Physical Network.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>In the Guest node of the diagram, click Configure.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Click Add VLAN Ranges button <inlinemediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="./images/add-vlan-icon.png"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <phrase>add-vlan-ico.png: button to add a VLAN range.</phrase>
            </textobject>
          </inlinemediaobject></para>
        <para>The Add VLAN Ranges dialog is displayed.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Specify the start and end of the VLAN range.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
      <para>Click OK.</para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
  </section>
</section>