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
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
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
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
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 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
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