Global Published IP Address

Beginning with HyTrust CloudControl release 5.5, you can now use a Global published IP (Global PIP) instead of assigning a dedicated published IP (PIP) to each of your ESXi hosts protected by CloudControl. With Global PIP, instead of individual IP addresses, one IP address is created for all of your ESXi hosts. Once added to CloudControl, the hosts are automatically assigned four ports to distinguish them from other hosts. The ports assigned are used for the following: 

• HTTP traffic
• HTTPS traffic
• SSH traffic
• Open VM Console

The range of ports to be used is from 49152 to 65535. The unused ports are stored in a port pool. We recommend that you do not manually close any of the ports in this range and that you do not use the ports for any other purpose.

You can enable Global PIP at any time. Once Global PIP is enabled you must manually choose to select Global PIP for each ESXi host. You can update one or more hosts at the same time. However, you cannot disable Global PIP if any hosts are using the Global PIP. All hosts protected with Global PIP should either be removed, or edited to use either a dedicated PIP or no PIP. Hosts will remain protected, whether or not they have a dedicated PIP.