Tag: Migration
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Understanding HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM): Sentinel Architecture and Switchover Behaviour
How HCX OSAM migrates non-vSphere guests using the Sentinel agent, SGW, SDR and SRG appliances, Windows and Linux differences, and switchover behaviour.
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Understanding HCX Assisted vMotion (Direct): Native Cross-vCenter vMotion, Orchestrated
How HCX Assisted vMotion (Direct) orchestrates native cross-vCenter vMotion, its requirements, and the restrictions including NSX-T and lack of diagnostics.
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Understanding HCX Cold Migration: Requirements, NFC Behaviour and When to Use It
How HCX Cold Migration works for powered-off virtual machines, the NFC and firewall behaviour that catches people out, and when to use it over Bulk.
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Understanding HCX Bulk Migration: Requirements, Restrictions and Switchover Behaviour
How HCX Bulk Migration works, its requirements including encrypted VMs, the restrictions that block migration, and the switchover behaviour to plan for.
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VMware Cloud Director to VCF Automation Migration: The Complete Guide for Service Providers
The platform your provider business runs on is being replaced. What VCF Automation is, how the migration path works, what it does to your tenants, and how to phase a programme that cannot fail quietly.
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VMware HCX Port Requirements Explained: A Complete Guide to HCX Network Flows
Every firewall rule for VMware HCX explained: HCX Manager, HCX-IX and HCX-NE ports, protocols, directions and purposes - including UDP 4500, TCP 9443, 8123, 31031, 44046 and a consolidated port reference table.
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