I’ve been using a HP Z640 Workstation as the core of my homelab for some time. It’s been excellent – it’s quiet, it’s easy to work in, it’s certainly not slow but then it’s not going to set any records. It has become tiresome only having a single host, such as managing updates as I … 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
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
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
In this series of blog posts I will explain how you can migrate your on-prem datacenter to VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS. Although I will mainly cover migration, the same premise can be used for extending your workloads and using the cloud to simply scale up as required or permanently running a hybrid linked mode … Read more
VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension is a mobility platform which is designed to simplify application and workload migration and rebalancing. It also provides business continuity across datacenters and clouds. In this post I explain how we deploy HCX on VMC on AWS, on-prem and then pairing them together, This is the basis on how we can … Read more
This is the first part in a series of blog posts about VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS, concentrating on how to set up a site to site VPN to VMC on AWS and then how to migrate on-prem workloads to it. VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS is a fully managed vSphere environment in collaboration with … Read more
I previously blogged about my SuperMicro based homelab. It performed without issue, however, I was concerned about noise and heat output from the little servers. Had I power and networking available in my garage I might have put them in there but that wasn’t an option. Keeping them cool throughout the winter wasn’t much of … Read more
VMware have released the new version of NSX (6.4.5) on the 18th of April. Full release notes can be read here. One of the frustrating things working with NSX is the requirement to use the old Flex interface to carry out certain functions such as configuring routing on Edge devices. Thankfully 6.4.5 moves one step … Read more