How does DHCP work in Cloud Networks?
Cloud Networks themselves are agnostic to DHCP traffic - Cloud Networks will pass DHCP traffic along, since they operate at Layer 2.
However, Big Apps operate at Layer 3 by default, so they do not process DHCP requests. IP Address Pools are used in Cloud Networks to allocate IP addresses to Big Apps clients.
Therefore, when using Big Edge devices which offer DHCP services, it is important to only enable a single DHCP service per logical Cloud Network, as DHCP requests will be processed across the Cloud Network.
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