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Managing Virtual IP Addresses

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A virtual IP address provides the second IP address for one or more ECS NICs, improving high availability between the ECSs.

Binding a Virtual IP Address

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Under Computing, click Elastic Cloud Server.
  3. On the Elastic Cloud Server page, click the name of the target ECS.

    The page providing details about the ECS is displayed.

  4. On the Network Interfaces tab, locate the target virtual IP address and click Manage Virtual IP Address.
  5. On the IP Addresses tab of the displayed page, locate the row containing the target virtual IP address and select Bind to EIP or Bind to Server in the Operation column.

    Multiple ECSs deployed to work in active/standby mode can be bound with a virtual IP address to improve DR performance.

  6. Click OK.

Logging In to the ECS to Configure Virtual IP Addresses

After you bind one or more virtual IP addresses to an ECS on the console, you must log in to the ECS to manually configure these virtual IP address.

The following OSs are used as examples here. For other OSs, see the help documents on their official websites.
  • Linux: CentOS 7.2 64bit and Ubuntu 22.04 server 64bit
  • Windows: Windows Server
Linux (CentOS 7.2 64bit is used as an example.)
  1. Obtain the NIC that the virtual IP address is to be bound and the connection of the NIC:

    nmcli connection

    Information similar to the following is displayed:

    The command output in this example is described as follows:

    • eth0 in the DEVICE column indicates the NIC that the virtual IP address is to be bound.
    • Wired connection 1 in the NAME column indicates the connection of the NIC.
  2. Add the virtual IP address for the connection:

    nmcli connection modify "Connection name of the NIC" +ipv4.addresses Virtual IP address

    Configure the parameters as follows:

    • Connection name of the NIC: The connection name of the NIC obtained in 1. In this example, the connection name is Wired connection 1.
    • Virtual IP address: Enter the virtual IP address to be added. If you add multiple virtual IP addresses at a time, separate every two with a comma (,).
    Example commands:
    • Adding a single virtual IP address: nmcli connection modify "Wired connection 1" +ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.125
    • Adding multiple virtual IP addresses: nmcli connection modify "Wired connection 1" +ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.125,172.16.0.126
  3. Make the configuration in 2 take effect:

    nmcli connection up "Connection name of the NIC"

    In this example, run the following command:

    nmcli connection up "Wired connection 1"

    Information similar to the following is displayed:

  4. Check whether the virtual IP address has been bound:

    ip a

    Information similar to the following is displayed. In the command output, the virtual IP address 172.16.0.125 is bound to NIC eth0.

    To delete an added virtual IP address, perform the following steps:

    1. Delete the virtual IP address from the connection of the NIC:

      nmcli connection modify "Connection name of the NIC" -ipv4.addresses Virtual IP address

      To delete multiple virtual IP addresses at a time, separate every two with a comma (,). Example commands are as follows:
      • Deleting a single virtual IP address: nmcli connection modify "Wired connection 1" -ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.125
      • Deleting multiple virtual IP addresses: nmcli connection modify "Wired connection 1" -ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.125,172.16.0.126
    2. Make the deletion take effect by referring to 3.

Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 server 64bit is used as an example.)

If an ECS runs Ubuntu 22 or Ubuntu 20, perform the following operations:
  1. Obtain the NIC that the virtual IP address is to be bound:

    ifconfig

    Information similar to the following is displayed. In this example, the NIC bound to the virtual IP address is eth0. 
    root@ecs-X-ubantu:~# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.16.0.210  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 172.16.0.255
        inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fe01:f1c3  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether fa:16:3e:01:f1:c3  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 43915  bytes 63606486 (63.6 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 3364  bytes 455617 (455.6 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
...
  2. Switch to the /etc/netplan directory:

    cd /etc/netplan

  3. Add a virtual IP address to the NIC.
    1. Open the configuration file 01-netcfg.yaml:

      vim 01-netcfg.yaml

    2. Press i to enter the editing mode.
    3. In the NIC configuration area, add a virtual IP address.

      In this example, add a virtual IP address for eth0:

      addresses:

      - 172.16.0.26/32

      The file content is as follows: 
      network:
    version: 2
    renderer: NetworkManager
    ethernets:
        eth0:
            dhcp4: true
            addresses:
            - 172.16.0.26/32
        eth1:
            dhcp4: true
        eth2:
            dhcp4: true
        eth3:
            dhcp4: true
        eth4:
            dhcp4: true
    4. Press Esc, enter :wq!, save the configuration, and exit.
  4. Make the configuration in 3 take effect:

    netplan apply

  5. Check whether the virtual IP address has been bound:

    ip a

    Information similar to the following is displayed. In the command output, the virtual IP address 172.16.0.26 is bound to NIC eth0. 
    root@ecs-X-ubantu:/etc/netplan# ip a
...
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether fa:16:3e:01:f1:c3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp0s3
    altname ens3
    inet 172.16.0.26/32 scope global noprefixroute eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet 172.16.0.210/24 brd 172.16.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute eth0
       valid_lft 107999971sec preferred_lft 107999971sec
    inet6 fe80::f816:3eff:fe01:f1c3/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

    To delete an added virtual IP address, perform the following steps:

    1. Open the configuration file 01-netcfg.yaml and delete the virtual IP address of the corresponding NIC by referring to 3.
    2. Make the deletion take effect by referring to 4.

Windows OS (Windows Server is used as an example here.)

  1. In Control Panel, click Network and Sharing Center, and click the corresponding local connection.
  2. On the displayed page, click Properties.
  3. On the Network tab page, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4).
  4. Click Properties.
  5. Select Use the following IP address and set IP address to the private IP address of the ECS, for example, 10.0.0.101.
    Figure 1 Configuring private IP address
  6. Click Advanced.
  7. On the IP Settings tab, click Add in the IP addresses area.

    Add the virtual IP address, for example, 10.0.0.154.

    Figure 2 Configuring virtual IP address
  8. Click OK.
  9. In the Start menu, open the Windows command line window and run the following command to check whether the virtual IP address has been configured:

    ipconfig /all

    In the command output, IPv4 Address is the virtual IP address 10.0.0.154, indicating that the virtual IP address of the ECS NIC has been correctly configured.