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chandlm
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APIPA/Auto-IP for vMotion

Is there anyone who has tried to use APIPA/AutoIP for vMotion IP addressing?  We have a specific use case where we may have limited options and segregation of VLANs is important and no DHCP options.  I'm curious if anyone has tried using the automatically assigned 169.254.z.y/16 IPs for that purpose to cut down on the administrative overhead.

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ramkrishna1
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Hi

Welcome to communities.

I don't think using APIPA we can able to communication

Could you please explain little more .

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chandlm
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Sure.  Basically we set the ESXi vMotion interfaces to DHCP but there is no DHCP server on the subnet.  That means after the timeout for DHCP, the interface will determine a 169.254.x.y/16 link local IP for itself.  According to the RFC (RFC 3927 - Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses) it should be unique within a layer 2 boundary and allow communications (again within a layer 2 boundary at least).  I don't see a reason this shouldn't work but just didn't know if anyone has tried it in the past.  We have demonstrated that it will work with a few hosts so I don't think there are any issues.  I'm just wondering if there are any bigger/long term issues that could come up by doing this.

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