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Realize value faster for new VMware private and public cloud environments while driving down operational costs.
Actively move and rebalance workloads as needed for scale, compliance, security and cost management.
Enable high-performance, large-scale app mobility across VMware vSphere and non-vSphere cloud and on-premises environments.
Combine automated network connectivity and optimized data replication to easily connect environments, protect critical applications and ensure availability.
Migration is often driven by a short term need to move a known set of existing applications to a new infrastructure. The most common use case for HCX that we see for a first wave migration today is cloud adoption that comes from building a private cloud on-premises with VMware Cloud Foundation or adopting a VMware based public cloud service such as VMware Cloud on AWS or Azure VMware Service or increasingly a combination of them in support of a multi-cloud strategy.
Moving a large number of VMs is rarely a straightforward event. HCX is designed to support these brownfield migrations, helping customers to erase technical debt by replatforming applications to current vSphere versions as part of the migration process, or recapturing workloads from KVM and Hyper-V environments. A critical part of modernizing your infrastructure should include ensuring applications are properly prepared to run on it.
The value of employing multiple clouds and becoming a software-centric services-driven business can’t be realized without the ability to actively rebalance your cloud and on-prem application footprints. At the heart of HCX is an always-on, secure, high throughput, WAN-optimized, and hybrid interconnect. Workloads can be continuously moved across cloud regions, cloud providers and on-premise data centers.
HCX hybrid interconnect enables live migration on demand and provides an optimized path for business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning. You can protect virtual workloads and enable on-demand, scheduled backup and recovery, as well as large scale workload migration for disaster avoidance.
The core mobility features of the HCX platform and new purpose-built functionality of HCX for Telco Cloud (HCX TC) combine to automate distribution, portability and management of network services from the network core to the edge and from private to public clouds.
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HCX with its ability to do scheduled bulk migrations as well as live non-disruptive migrations to and from multiple cloud environments has given our teams additional flexibility and control over our hybrid cloud strategy maximizing our workload mobility.
We will be using VMware HCX because it is the simplest and quickest way to move at scale onto the VMC platform. We’ve got hundreds of applications to move and if we were to take every single application on that single-path journey, we would be at this forevermore.
IHS Markit leveraged VMware HCX to migrate 1000+ workloads to support data center consolidation needs for corporate acquisition and to eliminate technical debt related to migration and strategic modernization of legacy workloads, without refactoring applications.
Black Mountain chose VMware HCX to facilitate the rapid movement of production workloads out of a colocation facility. HCX was able to give them a platform to migrate 400+ production workloads and 30TBs of storage in 20 days with no downtime and without upgrading the software or physical network.
The addition of VMware HCX to Azure VMware Solutions gives a more secure and simple solution to execute large scale live migrations, while also avoiding the cost, complexity, and risk typically associated with refactoring applications for the cloud.
Realize value faster for new VMware private and public cloud environments while driving down operational costs.
Actively move and rebalance workloads as needed for scale, compliance, security, and cost management; and to avoid lock-in.
Combine automated network connectivity and optimized data replication to easily connect environments, protect critical applications and ensure availability.
VMware HCX™ is an application mobility platform designed for simplifying application migration, workload rebalancing and business continuity across datacenters and clouds. Note: This product was formerly known as Hybrid Cloud Extension and NSX Hybrid Connect.
The VMware HCX platform provides a hybrid interconnect to enable simple, secure and scalable application migration and mobility within and across data centers and clouds.
VMware HCX abstracts vSphere-based on-premises and cloud resources and presents them to the applications as one continuous resource. At the core of this is a secure, encrypted, high throughput, WAN optimized, load balanced, traffic-engineered hybrid interconnect that automates the creation of a network extension. This allows support for hybrid services, such as application mobility, on top of it. With HCX hybrid interconnect in place, applications can reside anywhere, independent of the hardware and software underneath.
VMware HCX is designed for the following use cases:
No. VMware HCX can migrate from vSphere versions starting with vSphere 6.x to current versions and solutions such as VMware Cloud Foundation without requiring vSphere upgrades.
HCX can support the following types of application migration:
HCX is designed to provide simplified large-scale application mobility across any VMware- based SDDC environment including VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Service and all VMware Cloud Provider Partner offerings. Applications can be moved from datacenter to datacenter, datacenter to cloud and from cloud to cloud across regions and providers.
Yes. The ability to migrate KVM and Hyper-V VMs to modern vSphere environments is available in HCX Enterprise.
VMware HCX doesn't need MPLS circuits. It overlays hybrid interconnect over physical connections – broadband or dedicated private lines. HCX includes WAN optimization to increase the throughput. You can get started over the Internet and HCX will pick up additional links when available.
HCX is available in two distinct feature sets. HCX Advanced core functionality is bundled into most SDDC bundles as well as through our cloud partners. HCX Enterprise provides additional functionality and is available as an add-on license. See HCX Licensing Guide for details.
HCX Advanced includes the ability to migrate using HCX vMotion as well as cold and bulk migrations. Networking features include, High Throughput L2 Network Extension, WAN optimization, Traffic Engineering, Automated VPN with Strong Encryption (Suite B) and secured Data Center Interconnectivity with built-in hybrid abstraction and hybrid interconnects. HCX Advanced enables cloud on-boarding without retrofitting source infrastructure, supporting migration from vSphere 6.x+ to current versions without introducing application risk and complex migration assessments. See HCX Licensing Guide for details.
HCX Enterprise is an add-on license designed to deliver additional functionality. Building on HCX Advanced to deliver large-scale workload mobility and additional features including enhancements to HCX vMotion to allow for live bulk migration (Replication Assisted vMotion), migration of KVM and Hyper-V workloads to current vSphere versions (OS Assisted Migration), application discovery, migration planning and logical grouping (Mobility Groups), automated network management as VMs move (Mobility Optimized Networking) and more. See HCX Licensing Guide for details.
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vSphere 6.x and above, including VMware Cloud Foundation.
There are no version requirements for either KVM or Hyper-V.
In a typical HCX deployment NSX is required on the destination site, meaning customers have to use NSX if they plan to use HCX. However, HCX network automation can help simplify the transition to NSX in a few ways. First HCX allows for stretching networks from vDS and Cisco switches on the source site and it also works when stretching from NSXv on source to NSX-T on the destination. The means HCX can facilitate transformation of not only non-VMware networks but also between NSXv and NSX-T. Second, HCX also includes the concept of network swing so networks can be easily transitioned once a migration is complete.
HCX provides the transport , WAN Opt, Secure VPN and L2 extensibility features to SRM. When SRM and HCX are used in conjunction, SRM can be used to set up DR groups, recovery plans etc. and in turn SRM calls HCX to use all the transport benefits. Customers get the best of both worlds by using SRM for DR orchestration and planning and HCX foroptimizing network and transport layers and keeping the same IP during failovers.
HCX works with VMware Cloud on AWS by allowing customers to select HCX provisioning on the VMC console. This will provision and install HCX on the VMC SDDC. Customers can then download the OVA on-premises and install HCX on their datacenter. Following this, customers can pair up their on-premises DC to the VMC SDDC and start moving workloads. The VMC SDDC side HCX deployment is completely automated. Customers can also use HCX for connect VMC SDDCs across two regions. This is useful for Cloud-2-Cloud based connectivity. Using this, customers can move workloads between SDDC instances as well as stretch networks across multiple SDDC instances.
HCX is plug-in to the vSphere web client so you can use the same management environment.
Yes. It secures all in-flight data using military-grade Suite-B encryption.
Yes. VMware HCX has in-built SD-WAN that does WAN optimization at the transport level. The SD-WAN component provides compression and De-deduplication capabilities.
Yes. It supports zero-downtime live migration of VMs. It also supports scheduled bulk VM migrations.
Yes. VMware HCX supports multisite interconnect. There are many use cases of multisite interconnect. If you have small DCs in Europe, and have under-utilized rented cages, and you want to consolidate them on VMware Cloud on AWS to reduce your TCO, HCX can help you do this without impacting the applications. Or as another example, if you want to keep private data on-premises, in say, California, and have two geo-separated cloud instances, one in Germany and one in Japan, you can extend your applications to such an architecture with VMware HCX.
During the initial installation, a single appliance is installed, which is the VMware HCX. It will install one or more of the following appliances as required by your use.
Yes. You can have multiple management domains.
vSphere 6.x+ versions are supported for live vMotion migrations. HCX vMotion live bulk migrations available as a tech preview on VMware cloud on AWS and can be licensed now through the HCX Enterprise add-on available on NSX DC Enterprise plus package.
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HCX for Telco Cloud is a new version of the HCX mobility platform that has been extended to enable the dynamic management of network services for distributed telco operator environments. HCX TEC is a key component in the VMware Telco Cloud Automation offering.
HCX-TC works with Telco Cloud Manager within the Telco Cloud Automation package to enable large-scale multi-cloud placement and lifecycle management of network functions and service workloads. The core mobility features of the HCX platform and new purpose-built functionality combine to automate distribution, portability and management of network services from the network core to the edge and from private to public clouds.
Watch the video to discover how HCX transforms the way you migrate workloads.
Host Pete Flecha and co-host Emad Younis welcome Amy Lewis and Sachin Thakkar to discuss how HCX simplifies application migration and mobility.
Learn about key use cases and features for migration applications
Learn how rebalancing workloads is critical to hybrid and multi-cloud adoption
Read the features and benefits of using VMware HCX
Learn how HCX can provide business continuity through application mobility
See how easy it is to move your workloads across premises and cloud with HCX Bulk Migration.
Learn how to design more and manage HCX service availability and resiliency as it relates to planned and unplanned service impacting events
Learn about the proximity routing advanced setting for managing destination networks with HCX network extension and NSXV
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