Setting Up Failover Networking
There are two aspects to networking when you are working with HVR:
- What IP address will a replica virtual machine use when it is active in the DR site?
- Should a replica virtual machine be on an isolated network when conducting a test failover?
Failover TCP/IP
How are you going to get the virtual machines onto the network when the virtual machines fail over to the DR site? It is unlikely that you have stretched VLANs when dealing with host-based replication such as HVR. And stretched VLANs will be impossible for the hosted service provider, when everyone is probably using one of the common private IP ranges such as 192.168.1.0/24.
We have two options with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. We mentioned Network Virtualization ...
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