All TKB Articles in VMware HCX

The purpose of this guide is to provide VMware HCX® best practices for a multi-cloud environment, typically consisting of an on-premises data center and VMware hybrid cloud offerings. This guide focuses on VMware Cloud™ on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Still, the design principles can be applied to any multi-cloud architecture. This guide describes VMware HCX multi-cloud best practices and implementation considerations. Although there was a considerable effort in collating the best practices information, some deployment scenarios may not be covered. This guide is not intended as a comprehensive guide for implementing VMware HCX in every design. The following topics will be covered: • VMware HCX overview • Use cases for VMware HCX multi-cloud • Multi-cloud connectivity and security design considerations • VMware HCX multi-cloud site pairing and service mesh considerations • VMware HCX workload migrations and network extension considerations • Compatibility and interoperability considerations • Supportability considerations • Licensing considerations • VMware HCX cloud-specific considerations  [Published ~ Mid 2022 in VMware Cloud Techzone - Cloud Migration]    [Author: Caio Oliveira] 

About the document: The VMware HCX Availability Guide provides information to help users understand known configurations that affect the availability of migrated virtual machines, extended networks and VMware HCX systems. This document provides best practices for improved business continuity outcomes while using HCX. Audience: This information is for migration and cloud architects, systems administrators and any reader with interest in the implementation of highly available HCX deployments. It is assumed that readers have familiarity with VMware HCX, vSphere and NSX, and have basic knowledge of the systems underpinning HCX services. [Prepared using VMware HCX 4.3.0]  

The HCX Network Underlay Characterization and Performance Outcomes technical paper provides information to help HCX users understand the relationships between the network underlay and VMware® HCX. With HCX performance, various dimensions of environmental and load data need to be considered. One of the dimensions is the network underlay and the HCX performance derived from the underlay capabilities. In this regard, Characterizing an Underlay for HCX means understanding whether the underlay meets the minimum HCX requirements for providing successful virtual machine migrations and network extension services, and understanding baseline performance outcomes for given underlay conditions (even with the inclusion of IPSec VPN or SD-WAN, or VPN services which were previously not supported for HCX implementations).   This document attempts to put these considerations in perspective and also tries to provide some guidance on how to verify whether the performance is optimal for the given environment and parameters. [Prepared October 2021 with HCX 4.2] [Updated to 1.1 March 2022 - Corrections]  

HCX Mobility Optimized Networking (MON) is an enterprise capability of the VMware HCX Network Extension (HCX-NE) feature. MON enables optimized application mobility for virtual machine application groups that span multiple segmented networks or for virtual machines with inter-VLAN dependencies, as well as for hybrid applications, throughout the migration cycle. Migrated virtual machines can be configured to access the internet and AWS S3 storage buckets optimally, without experiencing the network tromboning effect. This technical paper describes the HCX Mobility Optimized Networking technology the VMware Cloud on AWS.   

Recently completed this technical paper. Here’s a synopsis right from the doc: The purpose of this document is to analyze HCX service behavior (as it relates to planned and unplanned service impacting events), and to explore configuration and architecture practices to maximize availability during those types of events.  The document gives a synopsis of HCX operations, and the details about those operations as it relates to service or workload availability. The following topics will be covered: Understanding Service Impact During Planned HCX Migration Operations Understanding Service Impact During Planned HCX Network Extension Operations Understanding Service Impact During Planned HCX Service Updates Understanding Unplanned HCX Service Impact Scenarios Considerations and Best Practices for HCX Service Availability VMware HCX Service Availability & Resiliency v1.0