Migration

HCX 4.8 What’s New?! Selectable Mesh! #HCX #VMware #Migrations

November 22, 2023 Bilal Ahmed 0

So, it has been a while since I have blogged anything. Life is busy and HCX has been slowly improving with every release of the product. Now with 4.8, there is a big change which has been asked for by many customers and by us internally for a while. The chance to use multiple service meshes within the same cluster! Now let’s rewind slightly If you had a service mesh going from one source cluster to another, that has always been supported. If you had one source cluster that wanted to go to 2 or more destination clusters, that was fully supported with multiple HCX Service meshes. It was called the One to Many approach: In the diagram below, this […]

Migrate VMs using #HCX #OSAM and #PowerCLI

April 4, 2022 Bilal Ahmed 0

Let’s talk about OSAM So “Operating System Assisted Migration”, can be used when you have Enterprise level HCX licensing. In the HCX Connector you have to download the OS agent which then you install onto the guest operating system: Once you have downloaded it locally, you can then copy it into the guest OS and install it, it then communicates back to the Sentinel Gateway Appliance and is picked up by the HCX Manager as you can see in the above screenshot. Now this is a good time to plug my co-workers’ blog https://www.chrisdooks.com/2022/02/24/automating-the-hcx-osam-sentinel-agent-install-via-sccm/ He discusses how to push the sentinel agent out via SCCM for Windows machines, which is much better than manually copying it across to various Windows […]

Automating HCX Cutover using PowerCLI #HCX #PowerCLI #vExpert

November 15, 2021 Bilal Ahmed 0

So I was provided with a script from my buddy Charlie at Tower Associates, and then myself and Dean Lewis edited it a bit to make it work alongside the scripts we had already produced in our previous posts. I’ve always been an advocate of doing the cutover manually. Cutting over 200 VMs or so in one go is daunting and lacks the control I would personally like. I like to be able to tell customers, ok we have cut over these 20 VMs for this app, please get them to test it, then when they are happy move to the next set. It is nice and controlled and instils confidence in the migration process. That is not to say […]