When IP Local Recovery is enabled and the IP resource fails its deepcheck (a periodic extensive check of the IP resource), then SIOS Protection Suite will do the following:
First, SIOS Protection Suite will attempt to bring the IP address back in service on the current network interface.
If that fails, SIOS Protection Suite will check the resource instance to determine if there is a backup interface available. If so, it will then attempt to move the IP address to the backup interface.
If all local recovery attempts fail, SIOS Protection Suite will perform a failover of the IP address and all dependent resources to a backup server.
Even if you do not have a backup adapter, you can enable Local Recovery so that SIOS Protection Suite will retry the primary network interface before initiating failover to a backup server.
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