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
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
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
On one of my more recent projects, I have been involved in helping a customer transition from traditional LUN based VMFS storage on HPE 3PAR over to using VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols). There are plenty of articles on the internet about what VVol based storage is, so I won’t attempt to reinvent the wheel. However … Read more
Previously as self-employed I had been putting off sitting the exam due to the cost, but I joined VMware PSO recently and as an employee I get a few free goes at the exams (before I have to explain myself to my boss!), so I figured I would just get it booked and sit it. … Read more