Hi All,
A bit of background on our current setup.
2 X Physical servers (server 2012 r2) hosting DA 2012 in NLB Cluster (Unicast)
All working fine.
I wish to virtualise the DA solution using VMWare. I've built two virtual machines with a view of evicting one of the physical nodes from the existing cluster and introducing the virtual machine.
However I’ve come across on this forum various posts in relation to unicast/multicast setup and has let me somewhat confused.
The current servers are plugged into a layer 2 switch going directly out to the inet. Saying that I’ve read something about layer 3 arp entries? i suppose the layer 3 switch would be our ISP? we have no layer 3 switches in between DA and the inet here at the office (sorry i am not a networking guy, so this might sound stupid... but I’ve been informed it's layer 2 switch only)
On the virtual machines i've added an internal nic and and external nic (the external nic is dedicated on the VMware host and not shared with other port groups) what do i need to do to ensure i will have no problems when it comes to introducing the virtual machine into the existing cluster please?
I know a couple of you have setup NLB on VMWare for DA, can someone kindly point me in the direction of some documentation specifically for this kind of setup or what be more helpful is if you could kindly explain what i need to do step by step.
I've read VMWare's documentation but wanted to get some feedback from someone who has done a real world install.
Do i need to set anything on the VSwitch for example notify switches, allow mac address changes etc?