# Ignition SCADA Redundancy

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-scada-redundancy/68832>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [January 20, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-scada-redundancy/68832 "2023-01-20T05:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sarode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/cdc98d/32.png) [@Vishal\_Sarode](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Vishal_Sarode)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-scada-redundancy/68832/1 "2023-01-20T05:51:06Z")

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Hello everyone. Can we setup redundancy on Ignition on two different VMs, when both are running on their respective Local Host. I want to achieve this for practice purpose.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-scada-redundancy/68832/2 "2023-01-20T12:33:08Z")

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Yes. You generally need a virtual network between them that permits guest-to-guest communications. Guest-to-guest traffic is not permitted by default in many virtualization environments.