Welcome back, in Part 2 of this HCX series we configured a Service Mesh between site-a and site-b in a Holodeck lab, to enable network extension and workload migration. In this post we’ll demonstrate the migration capabilities of HCX. First up, I’ll do some prep work. I’m creating an NSX Network Segment with CIDR 10.1.12.1/24…

In Part 1 we covered the deployment of HCX using the new VCF 9.1 Lifecycle process. In this post I’ll demonstrate the configuration of HCX by linking Holodeck Site-A to Site-B and migrating a VM from one site to another. First up, log into the site-a Holodeck HCX Manager at https://hcx-mgmt-01a.site-a.vcf.lab/ Browse to Sites and…

VCF 9.1 can now deploy HCX Appliances and manage the lifecycle via VCF Operations.In this post I’ll demonstrate the process, and in a followup I’ll show the process to link two sites for workload migration. First up, we’ll deploy – note that all IPs/Hostnames are conforming to the Holodeck standard. Step 1 – we’ll need…