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
