as static IP addresses. The account owner has complete control over the Elastic IP addresses

that belong to the account. You can allocate an Elastic IP to a VM of your choice from the EIP

pool of your account. Later if required you can reassign the IP address to a different VM. This

feature is extremely helpful during VM failure. Instead of replacing the VM which is down, the

IP address can be reassigned to a new VM in your account. Elastic IP service provides Static NAT

(1:1) service in an EIP-enabled basic zone. The default network offering,

services if a NetScaler device is deployed in your zone. Similar to the public IP address,

Elastic IP addresses are also mapped to their associated private IP addresses by using Stactic

NAT.</para>

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<para>However, for the deployments where public IPs are limited resources, you have the

flexibility to choose not to allocate a public IP by default. You can use the Associate Public

IP option to turn on or off the automatic public IP assignment in the EIP-enabled Basic zones.

If you turn off the automatic public IP assignment while creating a network offering, only a

private IP is assigned to a VM when the VM is deployed with that network offering. Later, the

user can acquire an IP for the VM and enable static NAT.</para>

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