Hi everyone,
I am installing a Windows 2016 failover cluster to bare metal on several M5 and M3 blades. I have created several vnic teamplates, one for management, and one for cluster heartbeat. I will use the management vNic to connect to the host, but the cluster heartbeat would only be used to communicate across the nodes in the cluster. For this reason I would prefer to use private, non-routeable IPs and not configure a gateway, such as:
192.168.1.x
255.255.255.0
I'm trying to wrap my head around how to do this and if this is even possible, because I would imagine even if I tag the vNics with the same VLAN the traffic is going to get dropped when it hits the switches. I would imagine this must be a fairly common goal when using Windows Failover Clusters, is there any guidance for configuring cluster heartbeat on bare metal?
Thanks.
