VMware Cloud Foundation

HCX -  Extend Network, Migrate VMs

 

Welcome to this demonstration on Installing HCX in VMware Cloud Foundation.

The purpose of this demonstration is to show how easy it is to migrate existing VMs from an existing legacy site running VMware vSphere 5.5 into a new modern hybrid cloud infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation using VMware HCX.

  1. Click [VMware Cloud Foundation]

 

In this demo, we will show how to extend a layer 2 network using HCX.

 

  1. Click [VM Network] on the left side of the screen to extend the VLAN

Then we will live migrate the VMs on that network to VMware Cloud Foundation.

  1. Click [The VMs] 
  2. Click [Service Mesh] to continue to the HCX UI

We begin at the source legacy VMware vSphere 5.5 Web client. Where we are currently on the HCX dashboard. We can see Site pairing is completed, and we are now ready to extend a layer 2 network to VMware Cloud Foundation.

  1. Click [Network Extension] on the left-hand menu
  2. Click [Extend Network]
  3. Click [VLAN-10] Checkbox
  4. Click [Gateway/Prefix Length] Field

This demo has automatically keyed in the Gateway for this VLAN.

  1. Click [Extend]

We can see that the network Extension is complete. In the background HCX has automated the creation of a new overlay network (Geneve/VXLAN) inside the VMware Cloud Foundation environment. We can now use this extended network to move VMs from the VMware vSphere 5.5 environment to VMware Cloud Foundation. During this migration the VMs will remain live and online.

  1. Click [Migration]
  2. Click [Migrate]

The HCX Workload Mobility Screen has appeared. This user interface is part of the HCX Enterprise License feature set. The mobility group interface allows us to create a mobility Group of VMs. For this demo we will group together three VMs that are part of an entire application set. To begin, enter a name for this mobility group. 

  1. Click [Group Name]
  2. Click [App-1] to add it to the group.

Next we will search for the remaining parts of this application.

  1. Click [Search] to find the Web VM
  2. Click [Web-1] to add it to the Group
  3. Click [Search again] to find the Database VM
  4. Click [Database1] to add it to the group

We now have all three VMs in the HCX Mobility Group.

  1. Click [ADD] to migrate these VMs together.

Next we need to select the destination parameters for migration.

  1. Click [Compute Container] to select where to move these VMs too inside VMware Cloud Foundation
  2. Click [User-VM-ResourcePool]
  3. Click [Select]
  4. Click [Specify Destination Folder]
  5. Click [Workloads] folder
  6. Click [Select]
  7. Click [Storage] to select the storage location for these VMs to migrate too.
  8. Click [VCF-VSAN]
  9. Click [Select]
  10. Click [Same format as source] to migrate as thin disk
  11. Click [Thin Provision]
  12. Click [Migration Profile] to select the method for Migration.

From the Migration Profile list, we have several choices for migration available. 

vMotion - Moves one VM at a time using the vMotion protocol.

Bulk Migration - Is a warm migration of multiple VMs at a time. Bulk, first syncs the virtual disks using built in vSphere Replication protocols. Once the disks are in sync at the destination site, and a maintenance window has been reached, the VMs are powered off on the source, then powered on at the destination site. A very short window of downtime is required for bulk migration.

The last two migration methods are part of the HCX Enterprise licensing feature set.

OS Assisted Migration - Allows HCX to Migrate VMs from Non-VMware Hypervisors, like KVM. 

Replication-assisted vMotion (RAV)- Is a combination of VMotion and Bulk Migration. This method allows for bulk live migration of up to 100 VMs at once. RAV begins by synchronizing the disks from source to destination. Once the disks are in sync, the state of the VMs CPU and RAM are then copied to the destination using vMotion. For this demo we will use RAV.

  1. Click [Replication-assisted vMotion]
  2. Click [Switchover Schedule] to view the scheduler

If you need to follow a specific maintenance window for migrations, you can set the date and time for that here.

  1. Click [Cancel]
  2. Click [Check Box for App-1]
  3. Click [Check Box for Database1]
  4. Click [Check Box for Web-1]
  5. Click [Go] to begin the Migration
  6. Click [Close]
  7. Click [Migrate-App-1-Group] to expand the Mobility Group Details
  8. Click [the Icon to see migration process details]

The migration begins with synchronizing the base disks, then proceeds to the switchover (vMotion) phase. After a few minutes all three VMs have been migrated to the new VMware Cloud Foundation Environment.

  1. Click [Browser Tab] to see the VMs inside VMware Cloud Foundation
  2. Click [User-VM-ResourcePool] to expand the details.
  3. Click [App-1]

We can see App-1 VM is up and migrated into VMware Cloud Foundation without downtime. Web-1 and Database1 have also been migrated successfully.

  1. Click [Browser Tab] to return to the SDDC Manager Dashboard page.

This concludes our demo on Installing, Configuring and Migrating VMs to VMware Cloud Foundation with HCX

To Learn more about VMware Cloud Foundation and HCX visit our Website at https://vmware.com/go/cloudfoundation

 

 

 


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