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    • KyleK
      Kyle @scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

      Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

      Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

      The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

      A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

      I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Kyle
        last edited by

        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

        Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

        Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

        The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

        A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

        I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

        Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender
          last edited by

          wow - that looks like a nightmare! Subnets all over the place.

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          • KyleK
            Kyle @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

            @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

            @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

            Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

            Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

            The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

            A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

            I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

            Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

            This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
              last edited by

              @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

              wow - that looks like a nightmare! Subnets all over the place.

              Right... "unflattened" it looks like.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Kyle
                last edited by

                @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                The issue is the MSP and whoever brought them in. Looks like someone is running a scam that needs to be reported. I'd consider this a security breach at that point.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @Kyle
                  last edited by

                  @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                  @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                  @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                  @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                  @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                  @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                  Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                  Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                  The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                  A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                  I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                  Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                  This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                  so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

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                  • KyleK
                    Kyle @Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                    wow - that looks like a nightmare! Subnets all over the place.

                    You have no idea. There are roughly 12 subnets just in our location. We have 14 locations total on a MPLS and those sites still run on /16 192 addresses but are slotted to be converted.

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                    • KyleK
                      Kyle @Dashrender
                      last edited by

                      @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                      Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                      Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                      The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                      A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                      I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                      Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                      This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                      so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                      They believe that is best practice for failover.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                        last edited by

                        @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                        Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                        Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                        The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                        A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                        I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                        Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                        This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                        so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                        How are they flattened? They are tiny.

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender @Kyle
                          last edited by

                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                          Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                          Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                          The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                          A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                          I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                          Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                          This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                          so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                          They believe that is best practice for failover.

                          To quote @JaredBusch
                          FFS /sigh

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Kyle
                            last edited by

                            @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                            @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                            wow - that looks like a nightmare! Subnets all over the place.

                            You have no idea. There are roughly 12 subnets just in our location. We have 14 locations total on a MPLS and those sites still run on /16 192 addresses but are slotted to be converted.

                            You have 14 /16 networks?

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                            • KyleK
                              Kyle @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                              Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                              Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                              The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                              A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                              I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                              Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                              This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                              so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                              They believe that is best practice for failover.

                              To quote @JaredBusch
                              FFS /sigh

                              We also have a 172.30 as well.......

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                This is really a management issue. I'd escalate. Explain that they are trying to apply a technical fix to a management oversight and that you can't actually fix the issue if management isn't actually trying to fix it.

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                                • KyleK
                                  Kyle @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                  @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                  @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                  wow - that looks like a nightmare! Subnets all over the place.

                                  You have no idea. There are roughly 12 subnets just in our location. We have 14 locations total on a MPLS and those sites still run on /16 192 addresses but are slotted to be converted.

                                  You have 14 /16 networks?

                                  As the ASA's for the other locations are still sitting in out office I am not sure how they are configured yet or what their scope is going to be.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                    Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                                    Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                                    The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                                    A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                                    I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                                    Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                                    This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                                    so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                                    How are they flattened? They are tiny.

                                    they are flattened because they no longer require a router to talk to any address, the fact that there is a HUGE collision domain doesn't really matter from a flatness POV. But yeah, that was crazy, a /21 would have solved it, without a calculator, I don't know if a /22 would have.

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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender @Kyle
                                      last edited by

                                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                      Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                                      Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                                      The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                                      A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                                      I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                                      Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                                      This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                                      so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                                      They believe that is best practice for failover.

                                      To quote @JaredBusch
                                      FFS /sigh

                                      We also have a 172.30 as well.......

                                      That won't be part of the 'new' flat network...

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                        last edited by

                                        @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                        Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                                        Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                                        The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                                        A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                                        I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                                        Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                                        This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                                        so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                                        How are they flattened? They are tiny.

                                        they are flattened because they no longer require a router to talk to any address, the fact that there is a HUGE collision domain doesn't really matter from a flatness POV. But yeah, that was crazy, a /21 would have solved it, without a calculator, I don't know if a /22 would have.

                                        They DO require a router, they are small at just /24 and unflattened. So to talk to each other, they have to route.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                          last edited by

                                          @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                          Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                                          Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                                          The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                                          A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                                          I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                                          Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                                          This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                                          so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                                          They believe that is best practice for failover.

                                          To quote @JaredBusch
                                          FFS /sigh

                                          We also have a 172.30 as well.......

                                          That won't be part of the 'new' flat network...

                                          It's the only one from what I can tell. In the images provided, that's the only /16 that I noticed.

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                                          • DashrenderD
                                            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            @scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

                                            Also, why has using /16 networking come up twice this weekend? I've gone years without hearing of someone trying something like this and suddenly, twice in a weekend?

                                            Why is the SAN bigger than a /26? Why so many addresses for something that should have so few?

                                            The move from a /24 to /16 was due to a "MSP" claiming flattening out the network would solve vlan issues that were occurring.

                                            A /16 is worlds beyond flattening. Flattening is /22 maybe a /21. But what you are showing isn't in the scope of that flattening, these networks are all over the place and can't be covered by a /16.

                                            I am aware of that. This was all decided long before I came on board. Yet I am tasked with identifying the issues and as you can see there are plenty.

                                            Right, but the SAN hasn't been flattened. The flattened network is somewhere else.

                                            This is what the "MSP" has identified as flattening. All the 172 addressing is new.

                                            so the 172.20.200.x and 172.20.201.x are now flattened.. but why where they separate in the first place?

                                            How are they flattened? They are tiny.

                                            they are flattened because they no longer require a router to talk to any address, the fact that there is a HUGE collision domain doesn't really matter from a flatness POV. But yeah, that was crazy, a /21 would have solved it, without a calculator, I don't know if a /22 would have.

                                            They DO require a router, they are small at just /24 and unflattened. So to talk to each other, they have to route.

                                            I thought he said they flatted the SAN network into a /16?

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