It came to my attention that there may be a scenario where a VM migrated with HCX can end up on the ‘none’ port group which HCX creates in destination environments. This port group is created by HCX and it is not intended to be used by workload VMs. There may be a situations where … 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
HCX 4.0 has just been made GA and is available via the ‘software update’ process within the HCX manager. As you can tell by the ‘4.0’ part, it is no longer following the ‘R’ naming convention. The new version means that this is a major version upgrade and it brings with it a host of … 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’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
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
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