vCenter Server 7.0.0c high CPU usage

I updated one of my vCenter servers this morning to the newly released 7.0.0c (build 16620007 / 7.0.0.10600) and after this patch was applied I noticed that the fan noise on my Mac Mini was quite loud. It’s a warm day, but it shouldn’t be audible as the lab was idle post patch. I checked … Read more

Migrating using HCX error: vMotion failed. A specified parameter was not correct

I’m currently working with a customer and we are leveraging HCX’s ability to vMotion VMs between their legacy datacenter and a brand new VCF on VxRail platform. HCX doesn’t require Enhanced Linked Mode between the vCenter servers and can work back to vSphere 5.0 U3 (caveat being you require vCenter Server 5.1+ as HCX requires … Read more

Migrating workloads to VMC on AWS using SRM

This post will cover how to protect a VM in my on-prem environment to VMC on AWS. I will then show how that VM can be recovered in the cloud. The same premise can be used to protect multiple VMs. While SRM can be used for datacenter migrations, I would recommend that you use HCX … Read more