![]() ![]() Open network settings and assign the interface name, set in tinc’s configuration file beforehand, for a Tap-device. Install Tap-device by executing addtap.bat file located in tinc folder. Tinc VPN requires a creation of a configuration file that contains a name of the host, the name of the host to connect to, the mode, and the name of the interface. Using Tinc VPN, it is quite easy to configure L2 network between sites. In fact, it is highly recommended to contact StarWind support team so that our Engineer could help you with the configuration and confirm the setup. However, StarWind is not able to ensure solution stability In case of higher network latency and slower network throughput. StarWind HA devices continue synchronization process under 100Mbps throughput and latency of 50ms, which allows protecting several mission-critical VMs. In terms of performance, the network latency should be minimized. To emphasize other software solutions, SoftEther VPN, Windows Server Routing, and Remote Access (RRAS) can be used to implement L2TP/IKEv2 and PPTP VPN as well. In our case, I use Tinc VPN to setup secure private networking between two locations. It could be implemented using the direct connection, hardware or software VPN solutions. The stretched cluster requires at least one single network channel between nodes. As usual, before StarWind configuration, let’s install all Windows Updates, Failover Cluster, MPIO features, and the Hyper-V role. To start with, get Windows Server 2016 installed on both servers. In this case, critical virtual machines could be migrated to servers that are physically located in a different facility but connected within the stretched cluster. ![]() This scenario is useful if, for example, a hurricane or other natural disasters are expected to hit one location. ![]() Even when the site fails, the cluster starts utilizing the StarWind storage on another location.įurthermore, stretched cluster enables swift virtual machines migration from one geographic location to another, maintaining network connections with other servers within the cluster. As both sites are active, maintenance or loss of any of them does not affect the overall workload of a cluster. It is designed to manage planned maintenance and avoid disaster scenarios. Stretched cluster allows extending Virtual SAN shared storage between two sites using it as a stretched storage. Within this scenario, VSAN from StarWind distributes Highly Available storage for a Failover Cluster that spans two geographic locations.
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