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Creating IPspaces

IPspaces are distinct IP address spaces in which storage virtual machines (SVMs) reside. You can create IPspaces when you need your SVMs to have their own secure storage, administration, and routing.

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Using Lenovo Data ONTAP, there is a cluster-wide limit of 512 IPspaces. The cluster-wide limit is reduced to 256 IPspaces for clusters that contain nodes with 6 GB of RAM or less for platforms. See the Lenovo Press to determine whether additional limits apply to your platform.

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Note
An IPspace name cannot be all because all is a system-reserved name.
Create an IPspace: network ipspace create -ipspace ipspace_name

ipspace_name is the name of the IPspace that you want to create.

Example

The following command creates the IPspace ipspace1 on a cluster:

cluster-1::> network ipspace create -ipspace ipspace1

After you finish

If you create an IPspace in a cluster with a MetroCluster configuration, IPspace objects must be manually replicated to the partner clusters. Any SVMs that are created and assigned to an IPspace before the IPspace is replicated will not be replicated to the partner clusters.

After creating an IPspace, you must create a broadcast domain to define the ports that will be part of the IPspace prior to creating SVMs.