DHCP Failover - can this be hosted on a VM in Azure?

Gareth Morrallee 20 Reputation points
2024-03-18T16:30:14.9633333+00:00

We have a client that requires a DHCP failover service in case of outages with their on premise DHCP servers - previously we ran this in private cloud and then migrated it to Azure VM - however today they suffered an on prem DHCP server failure and the Azure hosted failover didn't kick in - all networking and config looks correct however addresses were not issued.

A quick search seems to reveal that DHCP failover hosting in Azure will not work - so just need to confirm this so we can go back with an answer to the RCA and then plan to rearchitect

Thanks

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  1. KapilAnanth-MSFT 35,246 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-03-19T03:51:26.61+00:00

    @Gareth Morrallee ,

    Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

    I understand that you would like to know if we can deploy a server(VM) in Azure to provide DHCP for OnPrem machines.

    This should be doable. See : Deploy a DHCP server in Azure on a virtual machine

    Provided that this server is used as a target for an on-premises DHCP relay agent to provide DHCP.

    This server is used as a target for an on-premises DHCP relay agent to provide dynamic IP address allocation to on-premises clients. Broadcast packets directly from clients to a DHCP Server don't work in an Azure Virtual Network by design.

    More details on what is supported and what is not is given in : Can I deploy a DHCP server in a virtual network?

    • The distinction is that you cannot run a DHCP in Azure to provide dynamic IP address allocation to Azure VMs
    • However, by using a Relay agent in OnPrem, you should be able to provide dynamic IP address allocation to OnPrem servers.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers,

    Kapil

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