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Moving an Additional IP

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Learn how to move an Additional IP in your OVHcloud Manager or via the OVHcloud API.

Additional IP addresses can be moved between the services you use. This provides an advantage since you can maintain your IP reputation and SEO and improve the continuity of service of your applications and systems.

With this technology, you can switch IP addresses from one solution to another in less than a minute, with virtually no interruption to services for your users. It is useful for service migrations (e.g., moving projects from development to production) or when switching to a backup server during a technical issue.

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Individual IP addresses cannot be moved from one region to another (i.e., us-east-vin to us-west-hil). Migration only works for whole blocks; it is not possible to migrate individual IPs within a block. Learn how to configure Additional IP blocks in a vRack with our guides for IPv4 and IPv6.

 

Requirements

Warning

NOTE: This feature might be unavailable or limited on servers of the Eco product line.

Please visit our comparison page for more information.

Warning

NOTE: If the Additional IP address, or one of the block IP addresses, has a virtual MAC attached, the target server must support the vMAC functionality. Please see this guide for details.

Otherwise, the virtual MACs must be removed from the Additional IPs before the transfer.

 

Instructions

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When an IP block containing unique virtual MAC addresses is moved between two servers, those addresses are temporarily suspended. They will appear on the new server once the move is complete.

On the other hand, blocks containing duplicate virtual MAC addresses cannot be moved. You must first delete the duplicate virtual MAC address on the block to be moved.

If an IP block is moved/added to the vRack, it is no longer linked to a physical server. In this case, any virtual MAC address will be lost during the transfer.

Via the OVHcloud Control Panel
Via the OVHcloud API

Moving an IP from the OVHcloud Control Panel

Warning

NOTE: Only a single size block (/32) can be moved from a dedicated server to a VPS.

From the OVHcloud Control Panel, select the Bare Metal Cloud tab at the top of the page. In the left-hand navigation menu, click Network and choose IP. Then, select the Additional IP tab.

Click the more options ... button to the right of the IP address you want to move and choose Move Additional IP.

IP additional more options

In the pop-up window, select the service to move the IP address from the menu.

Click Next.

IP move - Failover

On the following screen, click Confirm.

IP move confirm

 

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