Once the VCGW appliance is deployed, you can onboard one or more vCenter Servers. For the purposes of NSX+, you’ll want to onboard the vCenter Servers that are registered as compute managers with NSX+. We left off with the VCGW appliance deployed and read to get started. Click the Get Started link. Click the Connect button. You’ll
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Before you can get started with NSX+, you have to get started with vSphere+. Part of vSphere+ is the vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) appliance, which is installed on-premises (vCenter Server adjacent). This appliance will be used to onboard your vCenter Server but will also be responsible for onboarding the local NSX Manager. Once onboarded, the
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If you have come to a point where you no longer need a specific Site to be included in your HCX+ inventory, you’ll find that the process to remove it is fairly easy. You will start from the bottom of your configuration and work your way up. If you have any VMs that live on
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If you’ve gone through the steps in my previous HCX+ posts, you should be at a point where you can test a VM migration. There is a three-tier app running in Site A (Sofia in this example), with VMs whose names all start with “dist”. These VMs are all on NSX-backed segments that have been
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Assuming you enabled the Network Extension Service when you created the Site Pair, you should now be able to extend one or more networks. This will allow you to migrate VMs from one site to another without worrying about having to change their network configuration or manually configuring any new networking infrastructure at the destination
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Now that multiple Sites are configured, a Site Pair can be created to link them to each other. Navigate to Infrastructure > Site Pairs. Click the Create a Site Pair button. Choose appropriate sites to add to the pair and provide meaningful name for the Mobility Mesh (the name shown here is the default, which was fine for me). I
With our sites onboarded, we can move on to configuring each site so that it can be used for HCX+ migrations. Click the Configure Site link under the Site to be configured (Sofia in this example). After a short time, you will see a page similar to the following: This site only has the one
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In my previous post, HCX+ Site Manager Deployment, we walked through through the process of downloading and deploying the Connector and Cloud OVA files that would become the HSM Connector and Cloud VMs. In this post, we’ll complete the process of onboarding these HSMs to HCX+. Back at https://hcxplus.vmware.com, you should have been left at the Onboard Site page
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Obtain the Connector and Cloud OVA files (and complete initial HCX+ onboarding) HCX+ provides central management of multiple local HCX+ Site Managers (HSMs). These HSMs are the equivalent of traditional HCX manager appliances. You can obtain the OVA files needed to deploy the HSMs during the very initial steps for onboarding a site in HCX+.
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You can use the vSphere UI to get a high-level view of events in your Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, and you can use the CLI to see very detailed information. Neither of these is both comprehensive and easy though. If you have onboarded your vSphere 8 with Tanzu installation to Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) (see my
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