
Hi all,
We're working through the FoE setup at the moment using the WAN option with active system in one data center and our DR system in another data center.
Obviously with the WAN setup you cannot have the same IP on both machines and I understand that as part of the failover process, the FoE changes the DNS record for the primary server to point at the IP of the failover server. However, our server folks are a little unhappy with this approach as they would like the DNS records for the servers to always remain pointing to the correct IP for the main NIC on the server. Instead, they would prefer if the FoE were to update an alias with the new IP - is that possible with the FoE? Doesn't seem to be an option for this during the install on the primary or secondary servers.
The DNSUpdate.exe process updates the primary A name record for the server, not the C name as outlined in this KB article.
You could theoretically execute your own dnscmd.exe process to update a specified C name record instead of using the DNSUpdate.exe.
Thanks for the reply. That is a possibility.
One thought I had was there does seem to be an option on the WAN set up (to avoid the split brain scenario) to set up a secondary IP on the main public interface on the 2 machines. I'm wondering if it would be better to tie the machine names to the A/PTR records for those addresses instead and then use the other hostname (the one that the FoE updates the IP for on failover) as our primary Orion address as it were. Don't know if that is possible? May have to do a little experimenting.