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 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
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