Customizing IP
Properties for Virtual Machines
You can customize
IP settings for virtual machines for the protected site and the recovery site.
Customizing the IP properties of a virtual machine overrides the default IP
settings when the recovered virtual machine starts at the destination site.
If you do not customize the IP
properties of a virtual machine,
Site
Recovery Manager
uses the IP settings for the recovery site during a
recovery or a test from the protection site to the recovery site.
Site
Recovery Manager
uses the IP settings for the protection site after
reprotect during the recovery or a test from the original recovery site to the
original protection site.
Site
Recovery Manager
supports different types of IP customization.
- Use IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
- Configure different IP customizations for each site.
- Use DHCP, Static IPv4, or Static IPv6 addresses.
- Customize addresses of Windows and Linux virtual machines.
- Customize multiple NICs for each virtual machine.You only configure one IP address per NIC.
For the list of guest operating systems for which
Site
Recovery Manager
supports an IP customization, see the Compatibility Matrices for Site Recovery Manager 8.8
at https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/8.8/rn/compatibility-matrices-for-vmware-site-recovery-manager-88/index.html. You associate customization
settings with protected virtual machines. As a result, if the same protected
virtual machine is a part of multiple recovery plans, then all recovery plans
use a single copy of the customization settings. You configure IP customization
as part of the process of configuring the recovery properties of a virtual
machine.
If you do not customize a NIC on
the recovery site, the NIC continues to use the IP settings from the protected
site, and vice versa, and
Site
Recovery Manager
does not apply IP customization to the virtual machine
during recovery.
You can apply IP customizations
to individual or to multiple virtual machines.
If you configure IP
customization on virtual machines,
Site
Recovery Manager
adds recovery steps to those virtual machines.
- Guest OS Startup
- The Guest Startup process happens in parallel for all virtual machines for which you configure IP customization.
- Customize IP
- Site Recovery Managerpushes the IP customizations to the virtual machine.
- Guest OS Shutdown
- Site Recovery Managershuts down the virtual machine and reboots it to ensure that the changes take effect and that the guest operating system services apply them when the virtual machine restarts.
After the IP customization
process finishes, virtual machines power on according to the priority groups
and any dependencies that you set.
To customize the IP properties of a virtual
machine, you must install VMware Tools or the VMware Operating System Specific Packages
(OSPs) on the virtual machine. See https://www.vmware.com/support/packages.html.