4.7.1 Background
A network pool is an object in vCloud that creates and manages isolated networks using vSphere port groups. The vSphere port groups can be pre-provisioned in vSphere or created dynamically by vCloud as needed for organization or vApp networks.
The following types of network pools are available in vCloud Director:
VXLAN (vSphere port groups dynamically created).
VLAN-backed (vSphere port groups dynamically created).
vCloud Network Isolation-backed (vSphere port groups dynamically created).
vSphere port group-backed (vSp
here port groups manually created).
This example
documents
the VLAN-backed network pool.