Tag: VMware HCX
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VCF-to-VCF Migration: The Parallel-Instance Reference Architecture for VCF 9 (VCF 9 Series, Part 17)
How to move an older VCF estate onto VCF 9 by building a parallel instance and migrating workloads across with HCX Service Mesh and Replication Assisted vMotion, including sizing, waves, cutover, and the RAV restrictions that derail migrations.
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How to Migrate Workloads into VCF 9 with HCX and vMotion (VCF 9 Series, Part 16)
A field runbook for moving production VMs onto a VCF 9 workload domain with VCF Operations HCX 9.0: when to use vMotion, Bulk Migration or RAV, how to plan migration waves, and the gotchas that derail cutover.
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Learning Modules on VMware HCX(Hybrid Cloud Extension) for Beginners
Good Day All! Hope you are enjoying the Virtual learning at Cloud Pathshala. In continuous to our different modules on several topics, here I am going to bring a new module which is VMware HCX. In last couple of days, I was working on VMware HCX(Hybrid Cloud Extension) to migrate our datacenter workload from on-premises…
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Learn HCX – Topic 10- How to Run Test Fail-over for Virtual Machine using HCX
In last blog we protected your virtual machine, now we will perform test fail over of your virtual machine. When you are ready to run test fail over, log in to your Cloud HCX manager and go to Services tab. On left hand side you will find disaster recovery option, click on disaster recovery and…
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Learn HCX – Topic 10- How to Run Test Fail-over for Virtual Machine using HCX
In last blog we protected your virtual machine, now we will perform test fail over of your virtual machine. When you are ready to run test fail over, log in to your Cloud HCX manager and go to Services tab. On left hand side you will find disaster recovery option, click on disaster recovery and…
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Learn HCX – Topic 9- How to Protect Virtual Machine for DR via HCX
As you know HCX can also be use as DR solution. So today we will know how can i configure my virtual machine for DR. You need to login to on premises virtual center and right click on virtual machine which you want to configure of DR. Go to hybridity actions and click on protect…
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Learn HCX – Topic 8 – Steps to Perform Reverse Migration
When we say reverse migration it means migration work load from cloud to on premises. To perform reverse migration you need to log in to your on premises vCenter and click on HCX plugin. Go to Migration tab and click on migrate virtual machine. Now you need to tick mark reverse migration. Once you select…
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Learn HCX – Topic 7- Steps to Migrate Virtual Machines using HCX
In last blog we learned type of migration we have in HCX. Today we will come to know about the steps involved during migrating virtual machine from on premises to cloud You need to log in to on premises virtual center , Go to home page and click HCX Go to migration tab in right…
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HCX Bulk migrations failed at 90%.
Issue: HCX Bulk migrations failed at 90% for virtual machine with an error code”Virtual machine is not configured for replication” Cause: It was found that if other type of replication configured (VMware replication ) along with HCX replication than HCX replication get invalid and mmigration gets fail. Resolution: VMware recommends not to configure VMware replication…
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Unable to find Virtual Machines in Migration Palette of HCX UI
Issue: Users are unable to find virtual machines in migration Palette of HCX UI. Cause: It is found to be known issue where migration palette keeps only data of 15 days with HCX version 3.5.1.8852579 or previous version. Resolution: Upgrade HCX version to 3.5.1.9064170 to resolve this issue. Thanks for visiting here. Share this article…
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Migrating VMware workload to Cloud
Companies are moving their workload to cloud as it gives you agility, security, reliability and global scale while reducing your overall cost of infrastructure. Today we are going to discuss migration tools which can help to migrate VMware workload from on-premises to cloud. First we will talk about Azure, Azure offers many services out of…
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Learn HCX – Topic 6 – Type of Migration
After Deploying of fleet components, Tunnel are ready and all set to migration but please ensure that all prerequisite are done example Firewall rule to be set up at cloud side. Related Topics: Learn HCX – Topic 1 – What is HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension) ? Learn HCX – Topic 2 – What are the…
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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