Edit vNIC Dialog

To configure the NIC used for the replicated VM disks. You can configure a maximum of four NICs.

Note: You can only change the vNIC IP for virtual machines with VMware Tools running.

Specify the network details to use for the recovered virtual machines after a live recovery or migration, in the Failover/Move column, and for the recovered virtual machines when testing replication, in the Test column.

• Network: The recovery site network to use. For testing, this network can be a fenced-out network to avoid impacting the production network.
• Create New MAC Address: Whether the Media Access Control address (MAC address) used on the protected site should be replicated on the recovery site. The default is to use the same MAC address on both sites.
• Change vNIC IP Configuration: Whether or not to keep the default virtual NIC (vNIC) IP configuration. You can only change the vNIC IP after recovery has completed with VMware Tools installed.

To change the vNIC IP, select Yes in the Failover/Move or Test column. If you select a static IP connection, set the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway. Optionally, change the preferred and alternate DNS server IPs and the DNS suffix. If you select DHCP, the IP configuration and DNS server configurations are assigned automatically, to match the protected virtual machine. You can change the DNS suffix.

If the virtual machine has multiple NICs but is configured to only have a single default gateway, fill in a 0 for each octet in the Default gateway field for the NICs with no default gateway.

Note: During a failover, move, or test failover, if the recovered virtual machine is assigned a different IP than the original IP, after the virtual machine has started it is automatically rebooted so that it starts up with the correct IP. If the same network is used for both production and test failovers, Zerto recommends changing the IP address for the virtual machines started for the test, so that there is no IP clash between the test machines and the production machines.

• Copy to failover test: When clicked, copies the settings in the Failover/Move column to the Test column.
• Copy to failover/move: When clicked, copies the settings in the Test column to the Failover/Move column.