I’ve received several questions lately on what happens to a VM’s Managed Object Reference (MoRef) ID and InstanceUUID when it’s migrated across different vCenter Servers using VMware HCX. This information is essential for anything being used to identify VMs, such as provisioning systems, CMDBs, ticketing systems, and backup solutions are examples of tooling using this […]
Learning Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) Part 1: Overview
Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) is an all in one solution for workload mobility. Customers can freely move workloads between multiple on-premises environments as well as VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). During the VMworld US 2018 day 1 keynote there were several demos shown, one included a data center evacuation using HCX (51:57). The data center […]