FHRP (HSRP/VRRP/GLBP/CARP) on VMWare Switches

Although it's rather well-known, that in order to get any FHRP protocol to work, you need to enable promiscuous mode, i've run into the situations, when this does not help.
If you have also faced troubles with FHRP VIP being ureachable within the LAN segment, this command may help you in workarounding the issue:

RP/0/0/CPU0:DCS-PE1#sh run router hsrp interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2.200

Thu Sep 10 13:55:31.728 UTC

router hsrp

 interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2.200

  address-family ipv4

   hsrp 200 slave

    follow mastergroup

    mac-address 0050.56b1.d9d0

    address 10.216.1.161

   !

  !

 !

!