Edit vNIC Dialog

Edit vNIC - vSphere and Hyper-V

Edit vNIC - Azure

Edit vNIC - AWS

Edit vNIC - vSphere and Hyper-V

To configure the NIC used for the replicated VM disks. You can configure a maximum of four NICs.

Note: You can only change the vNIC IP for virtual machines with VMware Tools running.

When recovering to a vSphere or Hyper-V site, the following window appears.

Specify the network details to use for the recovered virtual machines after a failover or move operation, in the Failover/Move column, and for the recovered virtual machines when testing replication, in the Test column.

1. In each column, specify the following:
• Network: The network to use for this virtual machine.
• Create new MAC address?: Whether the Media Access Control address (MAC address) used on the protected site should be replicated on the recovery site. The default is to use the same MAC address on both sites. Note that if you check this option, to create a new MAC address, and the current IP address is not specified, the protected virtual machine static IP address might not be used for the recovered virtual machine.
• Change vNIC IP Configuration?: Whether or not to keep the default virtual NIC (vNIC) IP configuration. The vNIC IP is only changed after recovery for virtual machines with VMware Tools running.

See the Zerto Interoperability Matrix for the list of operating systems for which Zerto supports Re-IPing.

• To change the vNIC IP, in the Failover/Move or Test column, select Yes. If you select to use a static IP connection, set the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.
• Optionally, change the preferred and alternate DNS server IPs and the DNS suffix.
• If you leave the DNS server and suffix entries empty, or select to use DHCP, the IP configuration and DNS server configurations are assigned automatically, to match the protected virtual machine. You can change the DNS suffix.
• If the virtual machine has multiple NICs but is configured to only have a single default gateway, fill in a 0 for each octet in the Default gateway field for the NICs with no default gateway.
• Change vNIC IP Configuration?: Whether or not to keep the default virtual NIC (vNIC) IP configuration. The vNIC IP is only changed after recovery for virtual machines with VMware Tools running.

See the Zerto Interoperability Matrix for the list of operating systems for which Zerto supports Re-IPing.

• To change the vNIC IP, in the Failover/Move or Test column, select Yes. If you select to use a static IP connection, set the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.
• Optionally, change the preferred and alternate DNS server IPs and the DNS suffix.
• If you leave the DNS server and suffix entries empty, or select to use DHCP, the IP configuration and DNS server configurations are assigned automatically, to match the protected virtual machine. You can change the DNS suffix.
• If the virtual machine has multiple NICs but is configured to only have a single default gateway, fill in a 0 for each octet in the Default gateway field for the NICs with no default gateway.

During a failover, move, or test failover, if the recovered virtual machine is assigned a different IP than the original IP, then after the virtual machine has started, it is automatically rebooted so that it starts up with the correct IP. If the same network is used for both production and test failovers, Zerto recommends changing the IP address for the virtual machines started for the test, so that there is no IP clash between the test machines and the production machines.

• Copy to failover test: Select this to copy the settings in the Failover/Move column to the Test column.
• Copy to failover/move: Select this to copy the settings in the Test column to the Failover/Move column.

Edit vNIC - Azure

When recovering to an Azure site, the following appears.

Specify the recovery NIC settings:

• VNet: The virtual network to which the VM will be recovered.
• Subnet: The subnet within the virtual network to which the VM will be recovered.
• Network Security Group: The set of security groups the VM in the VNet will be assigned. This defines the inbound and outbound traffic of the VM after it is recovered.
• IP Address: The IP address the VM NIC will be assigned post recovery.
• Copy to failover test: Select this to copy the settings in the Failover/Move column to the Test column.
• Copy to failover/move: Select this to copy the settings in the Test column to the Failover/Move column.

 

Edit vNIC - AWS

When recovering to an AWS site, the following appears.

Specify the recovery NIC settings:

• VPC Network: The virtual network to which the VM will be recovered.
• Subnet: Subnet within the VPC to which the VM will be recovered.
• Network Security Group: The set of security groups the VM in the VPC will be assigned. This defines the inbound and outbound traffic of the VM after it is recovered to AWS.
• IP Address: The IP address the VM NIC will be assigned post recovery.
• Copy to failover test: Select this to copy the settings in the Failover/Move column to the Test column.
• Copy to failover/move: Select this to copy the settings in the Test column to the Failover/Move column.