Continuing the further steps in this part:
Activate and Configure VMware HCX
Create a Site Pairing and Service Mesh
Create a Network Extension
Use VMware HCX to Migrate a VM
Activate and Configure VMware HCX:
You activate and configure the on-premises VMware HCX instance.
Log in to the VMware HCX on-premises appliance
In the browser, open a new tab and navigate to your HCX appliance fqdn https://hcx-fqdn:9443
Enter the login credentials
User name: admin
Password: Password
Click LOG IN
Activate your VMware HCX instance
In the HCX License Key text box, enter the VMware HCX activation key
Click ACTIVATE
The VMware HCX instance is activated. This process takes approximately 5 minutes
In the Location of your data center text box, enter Virginia and select US East (N. Virginia)
Click CONTINUE
Click CONTINUE on the System Name page, where the system name is auto-populated with hcx-fqdn
Click YES, CONTINUE
Connect VMware HCX to the on-premises vCenter Server instance
Enter https://vcenter-fqdn in the vCenter Server text box
Enter administrator@vsphere.local in the Username text box
Enter Password in the Password text box
Click CONTINUE
The Configure SSO/PSC page opens
Enter https://hcx-fqdn in the Identity Sources text box
Click CONTINUE
Click RESTART
The SA-HCX-01 services are restarted. This task takes approximately 5 minutes. The browser tab automatically refreshes to the HCX Manager dashboard.
Close the HCX Manager browser tab.
Create a Site Pairing and Service Mesh:
You create a site pairing to link the on-premises VMware HCX instance and the VMware HCX instance in VMware Cloud on AWS. You also deploy the HCX Interconnect service.
Log in to the VMware HCX user interface.
Open a browser tab to the VMware HCX UI
Enter the login credentials
User name: administrator@vclass.local
Password: Password
Click LOG IN
The VMware HCX dashboard opens.
NOTE: The VMware HCX user interface is also accessible using the vSphere Client plug-in.
Create a site pairing
In the left pane, click Site Pairing
On the Site Pairings window, click CONNECT TO REMOTE SITE
The Connect to Remote Site window opens
In the Remote HCX URL text box, enter the FQDN of your VMware HCX instance in VMware Cloud
You can obtain the VMware HCX FQDN from the Settings tab in the VMware Cloud SDDC
Enter cloudadmin@vmc.local in the Username text box
Enter the password for your cloudadmin@vmc.local account in the Password text box
You can obtain the cloudadmin@vmc.local credentials from the Settings tab in the VMware Cloud SDDC.
Click CONNECT
The on-premises and VMware Cloud instances of VMware HCX are paired. This process takes approximately 3 minutes.
Create a management network profile
Under Infrastructure, click Interconnect
Click the Network Profiles tab
Click CREATE NETWORK PROFILE
The Create Network Profile window opens
Under Network, select sa-mgmt
For Prefix Length, enter 24
For Gateway, enter gateway IP xx.xx.xx.xx
In the IP Ranges text box, enter IP range xx.xx.xx.xx-xx.xx.xx.xx
For Primary DNS, enter DNS server IP xx.xx.xx.xx
For DNS Suffix, enter domain name
Select the Management, HCX Uplink, and vSphere Replication checkboxes
Click CREATE
The profile is created
Create a vSphere vMotion network profile
Click CREATE NETWORK PROFILE
The Create Network Profile window opens.
Under Network, select sa-vmotion
For Prefix Length, enter 24
For Gateway, enter gateway IP xx.xx.xx.xx
In the IP Ranges text box, enter IP range xx.xx.xx.xx-xx.xx.xx.xx
For Primary DNS, enter DNS server IP xx.xx.xx.xx
For DNS Suffix, enter the domain name
Select the vMotion check box
Click CREATE
The network profile is created
Create a compute profile
On the Compute Profiles tab, click CREATE COMPUTE PROFILE
The Create Compute Profile window opens.
In the Name text box, enter compute-01 and click CONTINUE
Click the services to enable them: Hybrid Interconnect, WAN Optimization, Cross-Cloud vMotion Migration, Bulk Migration, Replication Assisted vMotion Migration, Network Extension, and Disaster Recovery
All available services should be enabled by default.
Click CONTINUE
The Select Service Resources page opens
Click the Select Resources drop-down menu, select the SA-Compute-01 check box, and click OK
Click CONTINUE
The Select Deployment Resources and Reservations page opens
Click the Select Resources drop-down menu, select the SA-Management check box, and click CLOSE
Click the Select Datastore drop-down menu, select the Datastore-02 check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
The Select Management Network Profile page opens
Click the Select Management Network Profile drop-down menu, select the sa-mgmt check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
The Select Uplink Network Profile page opens
Click the Select Uplink Network Profile drop-down menu, select the sa-mgmt check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
The Select vMotion Network Profile page opens
Click the Select vMotion Network Profile drop-down menu, select the sa-vmotion check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
The Select vSphere Replication Network Profile page opens.
Click the Select Uplink vSphere Replication Network Profile drop-down menu, select the sa-mgmt check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
The Select Network Containers Eligible for Network Extension page opens
Click the Select Network Containers drop-down menu, select the dvs_datacenter check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
Firewall rules that are required between the on-premises environment and VMware Cloud HCX instance are listed
Click CONTINUE
Click FINISH
Create a service mesh
Select the Service Mesh tab
Click CREATE SERVICE MESH
The Create Service Mesh window opens
On the Select Sites page, click CONTINUE
The Select Compute Profiles page opens
Click the Select Source Compute Profile drop-down menu, select the compute-01 check box, and click CLOSE
Click the Select Remote Compute Profile drop-down menu, select the ComputeProfile(vcenter) check box, and click CLOSE
Validation of the configuration occurs and takes approximately 2 minutes
Click CONTINUE
The Select Services to be activated page opens.
Click the services to enable them: Hybrid Interconnect, WAN Optimization, Cross-Cloud vMotion Migration, Bulk Migration, Replication Assisted vMotion Migration, Network Extension, and Disaster Recovery.
All available services should be enabled
Click CONTINUE
The Advanced Configuration - Override Uplink Network profiles page opens
Click the Select Source Site Uplink Network Profile(s) drop-down menu, select the sa-mgmt check box, and click CLOSE
Click the Select Destination Site Uplink Network Profile(s) drop-down menu, select the externalNetwork check box, and click CLOSE
Click CONTINUE
The Advanced Configuration - Network Extension Appliance Scale-Out page opens.
Leave the default value of 1 for appliance count
Click CONTINUE
The Advanced Configuration - Traffic Engineering page opens.
Select the Application Resiliency and TCP Flow Conditioning checkboxes
Click CONTINUE
The Review Topology Preview page appears.
Click CONTINUE
The Ready to Complete page appears
In the user-friendly name text box, enter vmc-mesh-01
Click FINISH
The service mesh is deployed. This process takes approximately 25 minutes.
Create a Network Extension:
You create a network extension to extend the virtual machine network to a VMware HCX-activated remote site.
Under Services, click Network Extension
Click CREATE A NETWORK EXTENSION
The Extend Networks window opens
Select the VLAN-20-App-Tier check box and click NEXT
In the Gateway IP Address text box, enter xx.xx.xx.xx/24
Click SUBMIT
The network extension is created. This process takes approximately 3 minutes
Click the refresh icon in the vSphere Client if the Network Extension window does not refresh automatically
Use VMware HCX to Migrate a VM:
You use VMware HCX to migrate a VM from the on-premises environment to the VMware Cloud environment.
Under Services, click Migration
Click the Management tab and click MIGRATE
The Workload Mobility window opens
Select the app-1a check box and click ADD
Under Transfer and Placement, click Mandatory: Compute Container
The Destination Compute Container window opens.
Select Compute-ResourcePool and click SELECT
Under Transfer and Placement, click Specify Destination Folder
The Destination Folder window opens
Select Workloads and click SELECT
Under Transfer and Placement, click Mandatory: Storage
The Destination Storage window opens.
Select WorkloadDatastore and click SELECT
Under Transfer and Placement, click the Migration Profile drop-down menu and select vMotion
Click VALIDATE
Validation is successful
Click GO
The migration task starts. It takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.
In the vSphere Client, the app-1a virtual machine moves to the special jump-host (172.20.10.170) before moving to the VMware Cloud Compute-ResourcePool
Monitor the connectivity to the app-1a virtual machine
Open a command prompt
Enter the ping -t command to run a continuous ping to the virtual machine. ping -t xx.xx.xx.xx
Confirm that the pings continue to return after the VMware HCX migration finishes
The ping time increases from less than 1 millisecond to approximately 41 milliseconds when the VM completes migration to VMware Cloud.