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Feb 29, 2016

Can a vCMP guest make use of the HA Group feature that monitors trunk members?

Hi guys. Does anyone know if a vCMP guest can make use of the HA Group feature where it monitors a trunk to see how many members it has up? I've tried to experiment with this, and appears I probably can't, but I wanted to run it by others to see if I am doing something wrong.

 

What I tried:

 

  1. I created a trunk with three members on the hardware device (this is not a Viprion, so no blades involved).

     

  2. I then assigned some VLANs to it.

     

  3. I built a vCMP guest and assigned those VLANs to it.

     

  4. In the guest, when I went into HA groups, I could see the trunk. I added it as an object to be scored, but it said it had zero members (not zero members up, but zero number of members).

     

 

  1. When I looked in the HA Group settings on the hardware device (strictly to compare, because I'm not setting up HA on the hardware itself), it correctly showed that there were two members that were part of that trunk. So only the guest had a problem.

So to me, this makes me think the guest can't see the trunk members or make use of that feature, probably because the guest only sees virtual interfaces and not hardware interfaces. But, if that's a wrong assumption and there is a way to get this to work, or if there is a version where this information is presented to the guest, please let me know.

 

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  • Short answer is yes vcmp guests can use HA groups with trunks for failover. Can you see the trunk/members in the guest under network>trunks? Do you have HA setup between two guests?