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13.2. VLAN Allocation Example

VLANs are required for public and guest traffic. The following is an example of a VLAN allocation scheme:
VLAN IDs
Traffic type
Scope
less than 500
Management traffic. Reserved for administrative purposes.
CloudStack software can access this, hypervisors, system VMs.
500-599
VLAN carrying public traffic.
CloudStack accounts.
600-799
VLANs carrying guest traffic.
CloudStack accounts. Account-specific VLAN is chosen from this pool.
800-899
VLANs carrying guest traffic.
CloudStack accounts. Account-specific VLAN chosen by CloudStack admin to assign to that account.
900-999
VLAN carrying guest traffic
CloudStack accounts. Can be scoped by project, domain, or all accounts.
greater than 1000
Reserved for future use