Customizing IP
Properties for Multiple Virtual Machines By Using the DR IP Customizer
Tool
The DR IP
Customizer tool allows you to define explicit IP customization settings for
multiple protected virtual machines on the protected and recovery sites.
In addition to defining subnet
IP mapping rules, you can use the DR IP Customizer tool to apply customized
networking settings to virtual machines when they start on the recovery site.
You provide the customized IP settings to the DR IP Customizer tool in a
comma-separated value (CSV) file.
Rather than manually creating a
CSV file, you can use the DR IP Customizer tool to export a CSV file that
contains information about the networking configurations of the protected
virtual machines. You can use this file as a template for the CSV file to apply
on the recovery site by customizing the values in the file.
- Run DR IP Customizer to generate a CSV file that contains the networking information for the protected virtual machines.
- Modify the generated CSV file with networking information that is relevant to the recovery site.
- Run DR IP Customizer on the protected machines again to apply the CSV with the modified networking configurations to apply when the virtual machines start up on the recovery site.
You can run the DR IP Customizer
tool on either the protected site or on the recovery site. Virtual machine IDs
for protected virtual machines are different at each site, so whichever site
you use when you run the DR IP Customizer tool to generate the CSV file, you
must use the same site when you run DR IP Customizer again to apply the
settings.
You can customize the IP
settings for the protected and the recovery sites so that
Site
Recovery Manager
uses the correct configurations during reprotect
operations.
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.