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Mark_Cloutier's avatar
Mark_Cloutier
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Apr 15, 2015

vCMP and failover

I am using vCMP for the first time, just purchased two 5250v's to support a migration to Exchange/Lync. Very experienced with LTMs, have used them for almost 16 years now. Basic question, should I ...
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Steven_J__Willi
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Oct 29, 2015

Why would you not want the vCMP hosts to be able to config sync though? If I make changes to a guest on one vCMP guest, like add a vlan, then I would want that change to sync to the other vCMP guest on the other host in the event of a failover?

 

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nathe
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Oct 29, 2015
Steven, even with appliances you have to manually add VLANs to both devices, this is not part of the configsync. So in that case vCMP guests does not mean any extra work. Assign the VLANs to the guest in the host gui (on both hosts) and then assign the self IPs.