Tag: VCF migration

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HCX Retain MAC, Network Extension and DHCP: Keeping IP Addresses and Licences Intact at Cutover

Retain MAC keeps a migrated VM's MAC address and Network Extension keeps its IP and gateway, but DHCP reservations and licences survive only when both are planned per VM. This guide covers migration type behaviour, DHCP across extended networks, ARP, unextend and a cutover runbook.

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Sizing an HCX Migration: IX and NE Scale-Out, Concurrent Migrations and Throughput

How to size a VMware HCX 9.1 deployment and plan migration waves: HCX Manager form factors, IX and NE scale-out, configmax limits, bandwidth minimums and a worked wave-duration formula checked with perftest.

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HCX Bulk Migration Fails: "The MAC Address of the VM Belongs to the Reserved MAC Range" Explained and Fixed

HCX Bulk Migration with Retain MAC fails when a VM's MAC address is in VMware's reserved 00:50:56 or 00:0C:29 ranges. Here is how vSphere allocates MACs, why HCX refuses them, and the two fixes.

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What's New in VMware HCX 9.1: Enhanced Appliances, VCF Operations Lifecycle and PhotonOS Deprecation

HCX 9.1 rebuilds the IX and NE appliances on the NSX Edge stack, deprecates PhotonOS appliances ahead of VCF 10, moves HCX Manager lifecycle into VCF Operations and brings back WAN optimization. Here is what changed and how to prepare.

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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 Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV): Parallel Replication, Serial Switchover

How HCX RAV delivers parallel, zero-downtime migration, its requirements and restrictions including independent disks and vVOL, and the two-folder behaviour.

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Understanding HCX vMotion: Requirements, the Serial Constraint and What It Will Refuse

How HCX vMotion works, the 150 Mbps and hardware version requirements, why it runs serially, and the virtual machine attributes that block migration.

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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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Troubleshooting HCX Migration Failures: Which Log to Read and What to Gather Before You Open a Case

A Consult Circle technical guide to the HCX log estate, matching the failure to the component that owns it, and assembling an evidence pack that gets a support case moving on the first reply.

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VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x vs VCF 9.x: Key Differences, Architecture Changes and Upgrade Considerations

What changes between VCF 5.x and VCF 9.x across architecture, lifecycle management, operations and automation, and what an upgrade assessment must cover.

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VMware HCX Migration Problems and How to Fix Them: Service Mesh, Network Extension and Failed Transfers

Activation, pairing, Service Mesh tunnels, throughput, stalled transfers and switchover failures, with a diagnostic sequence that works.

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Migrating from Legacy vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Using HCX

A Consult Circle technical guide to VCF migration planning, HCX pre-checks, and Bulk vs. RAV migration strategy.

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The Complete VMware HCX Migration Checklist: 70 Checks Before, During and After Cutover

Seventy checks across discovery, compatibility, network, storage, build, execution and decommissioning for a vSphere to VCF migration.

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VCF Migration Services for vSphere 7 and 8 Estates: What Changes After End of Support

Patching, support, compatibility and compliance after vSphere 7 and 8 end of support, plus the four realistic options and the runway each one needs.

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vSphere to VCF Migration and Upgrade Paths: In-Place, Side-by-Side or Greenfield

In-place conversion, side-by-side migration or greenfield build: which route from vSphere to VCF suits your estate, and why hardware usually decides it.

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How to Migrate to VCF Using HCX: A Step by Step Walkthrough from Site Pairing to Cutover

A practical walkthrough of an HCX migration to VCF, from deploying HCX Manager through site pairing, Service Mesh and the cutover window.

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VMware Migration Services: How to Scope, Price and Run a VCF Move

What a genuine VCF migration engagement contains, what drives the cost, and how to tell a good proposal from a thin one.