Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Creating aliases

Aliases make it simple to see what devices or group of devices are affected by a rule. We can create aliases to identify an IP address or a network. They are similar to an IPSet, but one alias only points to one IP address or network, whereas an IPSet holds multiple IP addresses or networks. For example, in a scenario where we have a Proxmox network as 172.16.2.0/24 and Ceph public network as  192.168.20.0/24, we can create two aliases using the alias creation dialog box by clicking on Add from the Alias menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the preceding screenshot, we created an alias named ProxmoxNet to identify ...