When a VM is failed over or moved to another host, it may be necessary to reconfigure the IP of the VM. JetStream DR runbooks support the re-IP function that allows credential-less VM NIC changes on the failover site.

Prerequisites for re-IP (with credentials and credential-less):

    • VMware tools
    • Python 3.x
    • Static IP

The following Linux versions are currently supported. The Python3 binary should be available on the terminal. For some Linux Operating Systems like SUSE12, the default VMware tools package does not allow password-less execution and an updated VMware tools package should be installed; otherwise password-based re-IP must be used (DRBC-8188).

    • Linux: Alma Linux, RedHat, CentOS- 7,8,9
    • Ubuntu (18, 20.04, 22.04, 22.10, 23) and SLES (12 P2,15) 

The following Windows operating systems are currently supported with PowerShell version 5.1 or above installed.

    • Windows -  2010, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022

The JetStream DR runbook function allows credential-less VM NIC changes to automatically be applied at the failover site.

Setup

Configure IP settings from the protected site.

    1. Navigate to the runbook settings screen at the protected site and click the link to edit VM NIC settings.

Click the link to edit runbook NIC settings.

    1. Specify the IP details that should be applied upon failover.

Specify deired IP details.

Operation

During the failover configuration process:

    1. Select the appropriate network for failover (to use the applied IP settings).

Select an appropriate network for failover.

    1. Enable the checkbox option: Perform credential-less network modification.

Enable the credential-less network modification option.