When you are allocating a subnet to Lab Management, note these design
considerations for size and range of IP addresses.
- Size your subnet appropriately for the number of Client nodes (both physical
and virtual) that you want to support. At the minimum, you need to assign one
IP address for each of your Client nodes plus one for each of your
Infrastructure nodes.
- You do not need to allocate the entire subnet to your Lab Management hosts. You can use
some section of the range—either the beginning or the end of the range—for
other servers.
- Lab Management requires a continuous IP address range on a subnet because Lab Management
pre-assigns a hostname to all available IP addresses on the subnets that it
serves.
- If you do not allocate the entire subnet to Lab Management, you cannot run any DHCP or
RARP servers elsewhere on the subnet. They might conflict with Lab Management’s
DHCP and RARP servers.