Configure your network
Before you create your cluster, you must configure the network on which Vertica will run.
Before you create your cluster, you must configure the network on which Vertica will run. Vertica requires a number of specific network configurations to operate on AWS. You may also have specific network configuration needs beyond the default Vertica settings.
Important
You can create a Vertica database that uses IPv6 for internal communications running on AWS. However, if you do so, you must identify the hosts in your cluster using IP addresses rather than host names. The AWS DNS resolution service is incompatible with IPv6.The following sections explain which Amazon EC2 features you need to configure for instance creation.