HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM for short) is a VMware tool where VMs hosted on either KVM or Hyper-V or can be migrated into vSphere. It’s designed to work at scale and can do 50 concurrent migrations per Service Mesh and will scale up to four Service Meshes; allowing up to 200 total parallel migrations. … Read more
LACP on ESXi is fairly common with some vendors that do their own networking between the Top of Rack switches and the hosts, such as Cisco UCS and HPE Synergy. This has been problematic as extending networks with this configuration has typically been unsupported. Up until recently, the HCX documentation has called out the following … Read more
Although I have previously documented my homelab, there have been some changes as well as a housemove. This is part 1 of my 2023 update. This is how it was around a week ago, and as you can see it’s a bit of a mess. The Lack ‘Rack’ was only tempoary and I’ve had it … Read more
This is a post covering some things which I regularly see in the field. I’ll endeavour to keep this updated as new releases come out. The below is currently correct (as far as I know) with HCX 4.6. Always refer to the HCX documentation for the source of truth. This is not an official VMware … Read more
HCX OS Assisted Migration is a migration method within HCX where we can move supported guest OS VMs from a Hyper-V or KVM environment. The process to do so is once you have a functioning Service Mesh, you download a Sentinel agent and then install it on the VMs in scope for migration. Shortly afterwards, … Read more
Part way through the HCX 4.5 release notes it mentions the above with the following note: “In HCX 4.5, HCX can be deployed within a single vCenter Server to enable the Bulk migration. This is useful for cluster-to-cluster migrations in environments where the vendor compatibility or other requirements for cluster-to-cluster vMotion cannot be satisfied“ This, … Read more