I can't financially, but mentally I retired already. What 60-year careers could look like: thank you! I am ready to retire right now. Full Stop! Ready to work until you are 80? IT & Tech Careers Thanks for the information, that's super helpful! This is largely what I had intended. Always a good way to go, saves a lot of potential 'you aren't trying to do something dangerous, are you?'

3 be your internal AD or DNS servers, just to be easy to remember and organize.Īh ha, you've been reading my notes somewhere about pre-emtively mentioning things like that so that we don't ask why you are doing it :) I was discussing that in a thread with someone just Thursday, I think. Also 'common' is to make obvious numbers like.

But it's really all a matter of preference. This is the way you'd most commonly expect it to be handled. 2-.19 for static assignements and DHCP won't ever assign something in that space. You might set the DHCP Scope / Range to only be 192.168.0.20-254. We will assume your subnet is 192.168.0.0/24 and. Or, use DHCP Reservations alone, rather than doing static at all.įor the range change, this is a sample of how it might often be done. Then keep static IPs in a set range, rather than making DHCP reservations. More typically, what people do, is make their DHCP Range not include the entire subnet, but only part of it. So if I wanted to set a static IP for a Windows Server 2012 VM in order for clients to connect to it as a DHCP and other roles, I would need to reserve the address on the router for the IP of the VM I'm guessing?ĮDIT: To quash your Type-2 setup fears this is for a test environment only.Īssuming your server hands out DHCP over the entire subnet, then yes, you must reserve the static IP so that you don't risk two NICs grabbing an overlapping IP. When bridged, your guest acts like like a first class citizen on the network and is seen transparently by other network devices as if it was on the network directly itself.Īh right, since they create virtual NICs. A DHCP address, floating or reserved, will work just fine. No, static IPs are not needed in this scenario. The host OS can be on a different subnet than the VM it doesn't matter because they are not associated. The VM connects to a virtual switch in the host OS the same level as the host OS.

The bridged interface connects below the host operating system. No your VM host system does not need a static (fixed) IP address, or any IP address for that matter.

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