Virtual IP (vIP)

Virtual IP or vIP is similar to an alias machine name. StorNext uses virtual IP addresses to communicate with machines rather than using the physical machine name. Virtual IPs are required in HA (high availability) environments, and are also used for multilink NICs.

Your network administrator can provide you with the virtual IP addresses and virtual netmasks you need for your system.

Note: If your replication source policy or target policy is an HA system, you must specify the vIP address in the field labeled “Address for Replication and Deduplication” on the Outbound Replication tab for the policy named "global" on each file system for which you will use replication. The default value for this field is "localhost".

Remember that each StorNext file system will have a policy named “global,” and you should edit this field for each of those policies named “global.”