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
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
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
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
Now that the NSX manager appliance is installed and set up with vCenter, it’s time to deploy the control cluster and prepare the hosts. But before we do this, we need to define IP Pools for the Controller cluster and hosts to use. Head over to Groups and Tags from within the Networking and Security … Read more
The blog is a natural progression from setting up my 2 node vSAN homelab, although I have now added a third host and done away with the witness appliance (technically my third host is now the witness, but I gain another compute node). The end result of this blog is for a VM to sit … Read more
Today I’m going to talk about setting up a 2 node vSAN witness homelab. Homelabs are important for anyone wanting to progress their knowledge, although some hardware can be quite expensive, especially if you want to work with multiple hosts! Nested environments are quite popular but I think nothing beats having physical hardware to play … Read more