HCX OS Assisted Migration is a migration method within HCX where we can move supported guest OS VMs from a Hyper-V or KVM environment. The process to do so is once you have a functioning Service Mesh, you download a Sentinel agent and then install it on the VMs in scope for migration. Shortly afterwards, … Read more
Part way through the HCX 4.5 release notes it mentions the above with the following note: “In HCX 4.5, HCX can be deployed within a single vCenter Server to enable the Bulk migration. This is useful for cluster-to-cluster migrations in environments where the vendor compatibility or other requirements for cluster-to-cluster vMotion cannot be satisfied“ This, … Read more
If you have a relatively small HCX deployment, for example a legacy vCenter environment connected to a single VMC on AWS SDDC, lifecycle management of the various HCX components is quite straight forward; you could simply log into each manager (2 in this case) and have a look in the UI, or check the VC … Read more
I decided to upgrade my home lab vCenter to version 8, and I faced an error on stage two of the deployment: Helpfully, the log download failed! If I logged into the new appliance as root I could see that /storage/seat was full. Odd. After a bit of searching I found some old posts on … Read more
Update 26/07/23 – if you are running 3.1.x then follow my updated post here: https://chrisdooks.com/2023/06/26/configure-bgp-on-a-unifi-dream-machine-udm-v3-1-x-or-later/ Update 23/07/23 – it seems UniFi are now bundling FRR into their UDM to support UniFI Site Magic – source. I’ll create a new blog post soon, essentially you just need to enable the BGP daemon in /etc/frr/daemons and then … 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
For my home firewall I’ve recently switched from using a UniFi USG Pro to a virtual Untangle Next Generation Firewall (Untangle NG Firewall) appliance. The USG has served me well, however with no future developments for USG firmware, it’s starting to show its age somewhat. More advanced VPN support is lacking, there’s no 10 Gbps … Read more
I use a QNAP TS-673A at home for both vSphere storage (presented via iSCSI), media, TimeMachine backups, Veeam backups as well as providing NFS mounts to a Linux VM amongst other duties. After upgrading from QuTS Hero h4.5.4.1813 build 20211006 to h5.0.0.1892 Build 20211222 my NFS mounts to a Linux VM stopped working as expected. … Read more
The HCX team have just released version 4.3 and there are some really nice new features. Go ahead and check out the release notes here. One such addition is High Availability for HCX Network Extension and it is something which every customer I have worked has requested or asked about. As such it is most … Read more