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Hot-Standby HA in Virtual environment ?

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So, 

I am preparing a "Sophos UTM Highlights" presentation/workshop for one potential client who are looking for a solution for TMG replacement. I am planning to present some features in VM environment on my laptop, and one of the topic will be UTM HA capabilities.

I've tried it with Oracle Virtualbox and VmWare Workstation 10.0 with no luck.

Oracle Vbox:

  • All NICs bridged to physical, Promiscuous Mode selected.
  • After configuring first node communication is immediately lost. Ping packets are passing sporadically (scrshot).

VMware Workstation:

  • All NICs bridged to physical.
  • First node OK.
  • Second node hangs, after manual reboot hangs on "waiting for STP on eth3".
 
Any advice ?


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  • 0 in reply to teched_01
    Are you saying you have all of the Virtual NICs bridged to the same physical NIC?


    Of course that I tried first with "Host Based" NICs.  Since it didn't work I switch them to the bridged physical interface (WiFi - not used).

    Found by google-ing that this can help in building Windows NLB clusters in VmWare (in Hyper-V there is a check box "Enable MAC spoofing", and it works), but obviously not with UTM, or this is not the same technology...[:)]