VM Migration with HCX + PowerCLI - niiben287’s diary

日本語は下のほうに

Congratulation!

Yuta Watanabe, NBA player, contracted Toronto Raptors in April 19.

https://www.nba.com/raptors/raptors-sign-watanabe-standard-nba-contract

He continued his tireless efforts grabbed a standard contract.

Let me introduce VM migrations @VMC on AWS.

I have engaged VMC on AWS service for 2 years.

VMC on AWS does not have to design, just deploy and consume it.

But customer have to design connecting on premise and VMC, and VM migration.

I have to tell VMC on AWS environment. Mostly network connection for them.

And how to migrate VMs from on premise to VMC on AWS.

I mean design element still remains on VMC.

I propose HCX for customer having on premise and VMC environment.

HCX is powerful tool not only extend Layer2 but for VM migration.

I would like to refer VM migration with HCX in this article.

Customer select cold, bulk, vMotion and Replication-Assisted vMotion(RAV) for their VM migration with HCX 4.0.

They can migrate easily from HCX GUI.

If they have more than 100 VMs, it is hard to migrate without any mistake in a certain period.

We recommend using PowerCLI in the case.

Anyone can use PowerCLI for HCX migration.

Please see following links.

https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/557aee4d-26f9-4810-bc12-b1cf22401c8f/ca9f89cf-cdea-4e9c-9e50-f214cf902c1b/doc/New-HCXNetworkMapping.html

https://vmusketeers.com/2020/01/06/hcx-powercli-scripts/

I confirmed it on PowerCLI 12.3, SDDC 1.14, HCX 4.0.1 and vSphere7 environment.

It worked.

RAV is new migration type on VMC on AWS.

You can select RAV with "-migrationType RAV".

VMC uses vSAN for the storage, you need add "-DiskProvisionType Thin".

RAV migration requires "-ScheduleStartTime" and "-ScheduleEndTime".

Let me show on my lab experience.

> Connect-HCXServer -server hcx01.corp.local -user administrator@xxxx -Password XXXXXX -force

Server User

------ ----

hcx01.corp.local administrator@vsphere.local

You also have to connect HCX@VMC on AWS.

> get-hcxvm

Name PowerState Id

---- ---------- --

yVM3 PoweredOn vm-20032

yVM4 PoweredOn vm-26001

yVM5 PoweredOn vm-26002

> Get-HCXNetwork

Name Type Id

---- ---- --

mgmt-app-network OpaqueNetwork network-o23

VMOTION OpaqueNetwork network-o28

sddc-cgw-network-1 OpaqueNetwork network-o29

mgmt-ls OpaqueNetwork network-o30

VSAN OpaqueNetwork network-o35

direct-connect-ls OpaqueNetwork network-o34

L2E_VM_Network22-RP2-22-94f187f3-1473668478 OpaqueNetwork network-o1050

L2E_VM_Network22-RP2-22-94f187f3-1473668478 NsxtSegment /infra/tier-...

MA-VMW-VMotion Network network-1039

DistributedVirtualPortgroup dvportgroup-...

vMotion1 DistributedVirtualPortgroup dvportgroup-...

VM Network22-RP2 DistributedVirtualPortgroup dvportgroup-...

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VM Migration

Syntax

Get-HCXMigration [-EntityId <String>] [-MigrationType {vMotion | Bulk | Cold | RAV | OsAssistedMigration}] [-NumberOfMigration <Int32>] [-Server <HcxServer>] [-State {MIGRATED | MIGRATE_CANCELED | MIGRATE_FAILED | MIGRATING}] [-Username <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

<https://vdc-repo.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/6bd6daa3-08a8-4660-9159-23265b9d6c00/4d533cf0-f009-4fa0-8679-8d505fbe846b/doc/Get-HCXMigration.html>

Syntax

Start-HCXMigration [-Migration] <HCXMigration> [-Confirm] [-Server <HcxServer[]>] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]

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日本語はここから

渡辺雄太さんがトロントラプターズとの本契約を勝ち取りました。

おめでとうございます。

ディフェンス、リバウンド、3ptには定評がありましたが、最近のプレーではドリブルでのペネトレートからのシュート、パスが冴えわたってきています。

トロントは2019年にも優勝したチームであり、選手層が厚いために彼は短い時間の出場となっていますが、その中で成果を出し続けてきたことへの評価だと思います。

このサイトを読んでジーンときてしまいました。

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/jp/posts/basketball-nba-Yuta-watanabe-raptors-kotobanochikara

さて、本題のHCXは、Cold, Bulk, vMotion, RAV と、多くの移行パターンが選べるようになって、HCX 4.0はさらに使い易くなっています。