What's New in vSphere 7.0 : Introduction to Dynamic DNS Client

What’s New in vSphere 7.0 : Introduction to Dynamic DNS Client

Post category:VMware / Vmware vSphere / Whats New in vSphere 7.0
Post published:April 13, 2020
Post last modified:April 14, 2020

With the introduction of Dynamic DNS, the Client has given vCenter a much-needed power to contact the DNS Server In case if there is any change in the IP address of the vCenter Appliance.

The DDNS client only updates the DNS server about changes to the vCenter Server IPs. No other infrastructure IP changes are captured, e.g. No changes to VMs or ESXi host IPs will be captured

DDNS is responsible for the following tasks:

Updating DNS server about changes to IP addresses.
Sending Keep alive message to DNS server every day at 12:00 AM UTC.

Troubleshooting:

Log Name : ddns.log
Log location : /var/log/vmware/ddns.log

For more on the vSphere 7.0 please visit: https://knowitlikepro.com/category/vmware/whats-new-in-vsphere-7-0/

Ashutosh Dixit

I am currently working as a Senior Technical Support Engineer with VMware Premier Services for Telco. Before this, I worked as a Technical Lead with Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support for Production and Premier Support. I am an expert in High-Availability, Deployments, and VMware Core technology along with Tanzu and Horizon.