Network customization options
Ensure that the prerequisites are met before you customised the IP addresses and the DNS settings.
To customize the static IP of Windows guest virtual machines in the VMware environment following are the two options:
Use global user credentials for IP customization of Windows virtual machines.
This option uses the Windows global user credentials. These credentials must be configured in advance.
Install IP customization service on Windows virtual machines.
After you finish installing the IP customization service, ensure that the following settings are disabled:
User Account Control: Admin Approval mode for the Build-in Administrator account
User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval mode.
This option installs a service in the virtual machine to assist in IP customization. This service does not have any other functionality and does not require any inbound or any outbound communication. The Resiliency Platform does not store the credentials which are provided to install the IP customization service.
This option does not enforce authentication domain reachability on target data center unlike the global user option's requirement. This option is only applicable for VMware environment with third-party replication and Resiliency Platform Data Mover with VAIO framework.
See Prerequisites for network customization.
You can do the following in this panel:
Choose between the following two options for IP customization of Windows Virtual Machines
Use global user credentials for IP customization of Windows virtual machines.
Install IP customization service on Windows virtual machines.
Manage PTR records
For Windows DNS and for Linux Bind, if you want Resiliency Platform to customize DNS settings, then DNS records should not exist at the target data center.
For Windows DNS, if you configure a user in Resiliency Platform for DNS customization, then that user should also have rights to update DNS records added by any other user on the DNS.
Choose to continue with DR operations even if DNS updates fail.
You can customize the IPs for Production and Rehearsal networks. Customizing the IPs of a virtual machine overrides the default IP settings when the virtual machine starts at the target data center.
If the subnet mapping is already done, and the mapped subnets are of equal mask, then the computation of projected static IP is done based on the subnet mappings by Resiliency Platform. This projected IP address for the target data center can be edited. If the mapped subnets are of unequal masks, then you need to enter the IP address manually.
If the subnet mapping is not done, then you can either select a subnet from the drop-down list and apply it to all the target IP addresses or you can select a separate subnet for each target IP address. You also need to enter the IP address for the target data center. Since IPv6 network support is enabled and subnets can be created using IPv6 address, you can see the IPv6 subnets in the drop-down. Either you can apply the IPv6 address to all the target IP address or you can select a separate subnet for each target IP address.
You can choose to continue with the DR operation if the IP customization fails. Note that this is possible only if the virtual machines have static IPs.
To customize the static IP of Windows guest virtual machines in the VMware environment, Resiliency Platform requires the user name and password to log on to the Windows virtual machines. To configure this user name and password go to > > .
See Configuring Windows global user.
If the target data center is in cloud, then ensure that the IPs used for network customization are not already in use on the cloud.
If you choose to apply DNS customization, then you can add a host name to IP mapping of the DNS.
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