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How to change HCX Manager IP Address

3 November 2023 chris 1 Comment

I’ve seen a few cases in the field where a HCX Manager has been deployed onto the same network which…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, Networking, NSX, UniFi, VMware Filed under: change hcx ip, hcx, homelab

A quick look at HCX+ part 2 – configuring Site Pairing and deploying a Service Mesh

31 October 2023 chris Leave a comment

Following on from my previous post on HCX+, I’ll now cover the next stage in the process. Apologies for the…

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Posted in: AWS, HCX, Homelab, NSX, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: hcx, homelab, nsx, vmc on aws, vmware

A quick look at HCX+ part 1 – onboarding your SDDC and on-prem sites

30 June 2023 chris 1 Comment

HCX+ Initial Availability has recently launched and it is part of Project Northstar, which is essentially SaaS delivered multi-cloud Networking…

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Posted in: HCX, NSX, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: hcx, homelab, nsx, vmc on aws, vmware

Configure BGP on a UniFi Dream Machine (UDM) v3.1.x or later

26 June 2023 chris 11 Comments

I previously blogged that you can install and enable FRR on a UniFi UDM (or UDM SE) running UniFi OS…

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Posted in: Homelab, Networking, NSX, UniFi, VMware

How my Homelab and the vExpert community has helped me

8 June 2023 chris Leave a comment

Sometime in 2017 when I was doing freelance consulting, I was in the middle of a vSphere upgrade from 6…

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Posted in: Certification, Homelab, VMware

Can you use HCX OSAM to migrate from Native Azure to vSphere?

3 May 2023 chris Leave a comment

HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM for short) is a VMware tool where VMs hosted on either KVM or Hyper-V or…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, Linux, Microsoft, Networking, Ubuntu, UniFi, VMware Filed under: azure, hcx, homelab, migration, native azure to vsphere, osam, ubuntu, vsphere

HCX Network Extension with LACP – quick update

6 April 2023 chris Leave a comment

LACP on ESXi is fairly common with some vendors that do their own networking between the Top of Rack switches…

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Posted in: HCX, Networking, VMC on AWS, VMware Filed under: hcx, l2e, lacp, network extension

My homelab – 2023 Update Part 1

29 March 2023 chris 2 Comments

Although I have previously documented my homelab, there have been some changes as well as a housemove. This is part…

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Posted in: Dell, HCX, Homelab, Microsoft, Networking, NSX, QNAP, Synology, UniFi, VMC on AWS, VMware, vSAN Filed under: hcx, homelab, nsx, unifi, vexpert, vsphere

VMware HCX – common misconceptions and unsupported configuration

7 March 2023 chris 1 Comment

This is a post covering some things which I regularly see in the field. I’ll endeavour to keep this updated…

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Posted in: AVS, AWS, Dell, HCX, Homelab, Microsoft, VMC on AWS, VMware, VxRail Filed under: bulk migration, hcx, migration, osam, vmc, vmc on aws

Single HCX site installation supporting OSAM Migrations (HCX Consolidated Architecture)

28 February 2023 chris 2 Comments

HCX OS Assisted Migration is a migration method within HCX where we can move supported guest OS VMs from a…

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Posted in: HCX, Homelab, Linux, NSX, Synology, Ubuntu, VCF, VMware, vSAN Filed under: hcx, homeab, hyper-v, kvm, osam, vcf, vexpert, vmware

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