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Author: Michael Bender

articles/virtual-network-manager/concept-ip-address-management.md

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 # What is IP address management (IPAM) in Azure Virtual Network Manager?
 
-In this article, you learn about the IP address management (IPAM) feature in Azure Virtual Network Manager and how it can help you manage IP addresses in your virtual networks. With Azure Virtual Network Manager's IP Address Management (IPAM), you can create pools for IP address planning, automatically assign non-overlapping classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) addresses to Azure resources, and prevent address space conflicts across on-premises and multicloud environments.
+In this article, you learn about the IP address management (IPAM) feature in Azure Virtual Network Manager and how it can help you manage IP addresses in your virtual networks. With Azure Virtual Network Manager's IP Address Management (IPAM), you can create pools for IP address planning, automatically assign nonoverlapping classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) addresses to Azure resources, and prevent address space conflicts across on-premises and multicloud environments.
 
 [!INCLUDE [virtual-network-manager-ipam](../../includes/virtual-network-manager-ipam.md)]
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ In Azure Virtual Network Manager, IP address management (IPAM) helps you central
 
 - Create pools for IP address planning.
 
-- Automatically assign non-overlapped CIDRs to Azure resources.
+- Automatically assign nonoverlapped CIDRs to Azure resources.
 
 - Reserve IPs for specific needs.
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ IPAM allows network administrators to plan and organize IP address usage by crea
 
 There are two types of pools in IPAM:
 - Root pool: The first pool created in your instance is the root pool. This represents your entire IP address range.
-- Child pool: A child pool is a subset of the root pool or another child pool. You can create multiple child pools within a root pool or another child pool. You can have up to 7 layers of pools
+- Child pool: A child pool is a subset of the root pool or another child pool. You can create multiple child pools within a root pool or another child pool. You can have up to seven layers of pools
 
 ### Allocating IP addresses to Azure resources
 

articles/virtual-network-manager/how-to-manage-ip-addresses-network-manager.md

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ In this step, you associate an existing virtual network with an IP address pool
 
    :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/associate-virtual-network-resources-thumb.png" alt-text="Screenshot of associate resources page with virtual networks selected." lightbox="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/associate-virtual-network-resources.png":::
 
-5. Verify the virtual network are listed.
+5. Verify the virtual network is listed.
 
    :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/ip-address-pool-allocation-statistics.png" alt-text="Screenshot of IP address pool allocations and statistics.":::
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ In this step, you associate an existing virtual network with an IP address pool
 
 ## Create static CIDR blocks for a pool
 
-In this step, you create a static CIDR block for a pool. This is helpful for allocating a space that is outside of Azure or Azure resources that aren't supported by IPAM. For example, you can allocate a CIDR in the pool to the address space in your on-premises environment. Likewise, you can also use this for a space that is used by a Virtual WAN hub or Azure VMware Private Cloud.
+In this step, you create a static CIDR block for a pool. This is helpful for allocating a space that is outside of Azure or Azure resources not supported by IPAM. For example, you can allocate a CIDR in the pool to the address space in your on-premises environment. Likewise, you can also use this for a space that is used by a Virtual WAN hub or Azure VMware Private Cloud.
 
 1. Browse to your IP address pool.
 2. Select **Allocate** or **Allocations** under **Settings**.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ In this step, you review the allocation usage of the IP address pool. This helps
     | **Available address count** | The number of addresses that are allocated to the pool. |
     | **IP allocation** | The set of IP addresses that are allocated from the pool for potential use. |
 
-    :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/review-ip-address-pool-allocations.png" alt-text="Screenshot of an ip address pool allocations and statistics for the pool.":::
+    :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/review-ip-address-pool-allocations.png" alt-text="Screenshot of an IP address pool's allocations and statistics for the pool.":::
 
 4. For each allocation, you can review the following:
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ In this step, you delegate permissions to other users to manage IP address pools
 
     :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/delegate-ip-address-pool-permissions.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Add role assignment window with IPAM Pool User selected.":::
 
-6. Choose **+ Select members** and then **Select** the user, group,service principal, or managed identity that you want to assign the role to.
+6. Choose **+ Select members** and then **Select** the user, group, service principal, or managed identity that you want to assign the role to.
 7. Select **Review + assign** and then **Assign** to delegate permissions to the user.
 
 
@@ -144,17 +144,30 @@ In this step, you create a virtual network with a nonoverlapping CIDR range by a
 
     | Field | Description |
     | --- | --- |
-    | **Subscription** | Select your subscription. |
+    | **Subscription** | Select the subscription managed by a Network Manager management scope. |
     | **Resource group** | Select the resource group for the virtual network. |
     | **Name** | Enter a name for the virtual network. |
-    | **Region** | Select the region for the virtual network. |
-
+    | **Region** | Select the region for the virtual network. IP address pools must be in the same region as your virtual network in order to be associated.|
+ 
 4. Select the **IP addresses** tab or **Next** > **Next**.
-5. On the **IP addresses** tab, select **Allocate using IPAM.*
-6. In the **Select an IPAM pool** window, select the IP address pool that you want to associate with the virtual network and then choose **Select**.
+5. On the **IP addresses** tab, select **Allocate using IP address pools** checkbox.
+   
+   :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/create-virtual-network-ip-address-pool.png" alt-text="Screenshot of create virtual network window with Allocate using IP address setting.":::
+
+6. In the **Select an IP address pool** window, select the IP address pool that you want to associate with the virtual network and then choose **Save**. You can select at most one IPv4 pool and one IPv6 pool for association to a single virtual network.
+   
+    :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/virtual-network-create-select-ip-address-pool-thumb.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Select an IP address pool with IP address pool selected." lightbox="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/virtual-network-create-select-ip-address-pool.png":::
+
 7. From the dropdown menu next to your IP address pool, select the size for the virtual network.
-8. Select **Review + create** and then **Create** to create the virtual network.
-9. Once the virtual network is created, you can view the IP address pool that is associated with the virtual network under **Allocations** in the IP address pool.
+   
+    :::image type="content" source="media/how-to-manage-ip-addresses/virtual-network-create-select-address-space-size.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Create virtual network window with IP address size selection.":::
+
+8. Optionally create subnets referring to the selected pool.
+9.  Select **Review + create** and then **Create** to create the virtual network.
+10. Once the virtual network is created, you can
 
 ## Next steps
 
+> [!div class="nextstepaction"]
+> [What is IP address management in Azure Virtual Network Manager](./concept-ip-address-management.md)
+