Tag: VMware HCX
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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 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 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 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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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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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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HCX Bulk and RAV Migration Stuck at 0% Base Sync: Causes, Diagnosis and Fixes
HCX Bulk Migration or RAV stuck at 0% base sync? Diagnose the vSphere Replication handshake failure: port 31031, MTU, VMkernel tagging and fixes.
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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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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.
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