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Configure VM network health protection

Configure VM network health protection - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configure VM network health protection

- [Instructor] Network health protection allows you to configure a virtual machine so that, if it's connection to an external network configured for protection is lost, the virtual machine is automatically live migrated to a new host, where that protected, external virtual network is available. For example, if the network adapter connecting a virtual machine to the internet fails, and the external virtual network associated with that adapter is configured as protected, then the virtual machine will automatically live migrate to a host where the external virtual network still retains connectivity. Network health protection requires multiple network paths between cluster nodes. That means we need to have more than one network card and we need to have them all meshed together. In our Failover Cluster Manager, let's right click on our virtual machine and go to settings. From here we're going to go to the network adapter, expand, and then go to the advanced features option. From here we'll…

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