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Charles_Lamb
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Mar 17, 2020

Floating IPs and VIPs stop responding after a VMotion

I have many active/standby pairs of VEs hosted in VMWare ESXi 6.0, 6.5, and 6.7. Our organization puts an insane amount of weight on availability. We have noticed that it is significantly less impa...
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Mar 25, 2020

Thanks Shaun. I am aware of the DB variable to limit GARPs to prevent the upstream switches from being flooded. What we are looking for is to avoid a fail over and simply do a VMotion. As I stated VMotions are less impactful to some of our applications than fail overs with this one exception of VIP subnets that have limited traffic.