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Redirection Methods for Full System Scenarios

For Full System HA scenarios, Switch computer name and IP redirection are not supported; you may optionally choose DNS redirection. You can also customize the network resource to be used on the virtual machine. Specify the IP, gateway DNS and WINS address on the mapped NIC, if it uses static IP.

During Auto-Discovery, the software obtains only the Master server IP address on the DNS server. If you set Redirect DNS to On, you must manually enter the IP address of the virtual machine on the Replica server or switchover will fail.

To manually enter the virtual machine IP Address on Replica server in DNS

  1. Create the full system scenario, as usual or modify an existing scenario from the CA ARCserve RHA Manager.
  2. On the Switchover Properties screen, expand the Network Traffic Redirection properties group.
  3. Expand Redirect DNS properties.
  4. Expand Virtual Machine IPs on Replica server in DNS.
  5. For the IP Address property, click the Value column ("Click here to add new IP").
  6. Specify the IP address.
  7. Save modified scenario or click Next to continue creating it.