About networking in Resiliency Platform
Networking in Resiliency Platform comes into picture when the assets are discovered by the IMS. Resiliency Platform discovers and displays information about the layer 2 and layer 3 networks from the discovered assets.
Examples of layer 2 networks : Port group/VLAN, vSwitch, and cloud network if the target data center is in cloud.
Examples of layer 3 networks : Subnets and cloud subnets.
These are called as network objects in Resiliency Platform.
A network pair is created using these network objects across data centers. Creating network pairs eliminates the need to manually connect each virtual machine to a network at the target data center. After you have paired the networks successfully, the target networks and the IP addresses are computed programmatically and applied to the virtual machines. Resiliency Platform allows you to define peer networks in different data centers and uses these definitions to connect the workloads to appropriate networks and customize the IP information when migrating workloads from one data center to another. The network pairs should be defined before a resiliency group is created. Depending on whether the participating networks in the pair are layer 2 or layer 3 networks, the pair can be used for connecting the assets to the networks, or for assisting the customization of the IP addresses in the target network.
