As part of a technology refresh project (already gone through CAB and being railroaded by management) we've had a developer mandate to clone some existing RHEL6 VMs on the network. No big deal.
One of their non-negotiatable requirements though is that these clones have identical hostnames to the originals. (i.e. Server 1 and ServerClone 1 will have identical hostnames but different IPS. Each server will only have one clone)
These cloned VMs will live in on a different VLAN than the originals and communication between the originals and clones will be forbidden at a firewall level. The originals and clones will both otherwise be able to communicate with the rest of the network (unless feedback from this thread forces me to change that too)
Is this going to cause any real issues besides just being generally messy? I know some versions Windows Server like to broadcast their hostnames across the network, not sure about RHEL though. So long as the originals and their clones never "see" eachother I'm hoping this will be fine? This will only last for one month.
These clones will not be added to DNS (/etc/hosts will be used on each clone to establish names of the other clones in order to simulate a production environment) and all network details on linux servers are defined via ifcfg (no automatic network addressing)
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