HCX DR Use Cases #HCX #DR #vExpert
*These are my own ramblings and nothing I say is officially supported by VMware!* So HCX does have a DR feature. It does not get talked about much, because at VMware if you are talking fully-fledged DR you will be looking into SRM and the new offering VCDR. The HCX DR service uses vSphere Replication (VR) under the hood in the same way, SRM can use vSphere Replication. The main difference is that the IX appliance in the service mesh is the vSphere Replication Manager. SRM does full-on DR orchestration, failing over VMs in a specific order, with recovery plans, HCX does not do any of that. When I have talked to GSS and some customers, I have discovered that […]