Following on from my previous post on HCX+, I’ll now cover the next stage in the process. Apologies for the delay, I’ve been enjoying some time off work! As a very quick recap, so far both our on-prem and SDDC HSM appliances have been deployed and activated. If we use the UI to try and … Read more
This is a post covering some things which I regularly see in the field. I’ll endeavour to keep this updated as new releases come out. The below is currently correct (as far as I know) with HCX 4.6. Always refer to the HCX documentation for the source of truth. This is not an official VMware … Read more
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) is a relatively new product, certainly compared to Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which has been around since 2007; to put that into perspective, vSphere 5.0 didn’t go GA until 2011. The basic premise of the products are similar in that we configure protected sites, recovery sites, as well as folder … Read more
I’ve spent some time and I’ve finally moved my blog to a new host, and it’s also behind a Cloudflare. It took me a while so I apologise for the site being unavailable at times. This is a very quick post to say that it has moved and if something is not working right then … Read more
A question came up in an internal Slack channel whether VMware had written a guide on installing the OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) Sentinel Agent via Microsoft’s SCCM (now called Endpoint Manager) software. I don’t think such a guide exists, so I thought ‘how hard can it be?’ and decided to give it a go. The … Read more
I see this question come up often both in the field and internally. VMware’s public documentation on this covers most detail but the first time I configured HCX to use an AWS Direct Connect (DX) I was left with some questions. Before we dive in any further, we should cover some AWS DX basics. In … Read more
I’ve been working with a customer recently and they had an interesting question for me. They are migrating VMs from remote sites which have limited bandwidth. As such, HCX Bulk Migration is the method we have chosen for their migration project. During the day, they would like to limit the amount of bandwidth the migration … Read more
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
In this post I am going to show how to use HCX to migrate a single VM from my on-prem environment to VMC on HCX. Prerequisites: SDDC set up and VMC on AWS Functioning HCX deployed both on-prem and on VMC on AWS Appropriate VPN and firewall rules created HCX has been connected. Please check … Read more
Site Recovery Manager is used primarily as a Disaster Recovery tool, it can however be used for Disaster Avoidance and for VM migrations. I’m going to show how you can use SRM to migrate VMs using vSphere Replication between your on-prem datacenter and VMC on AWS. Before we start, we need to deploy SRM and … Read more