Besides adding the Mobility Agent host to vCenter, this VCF Operations HCX appliance, which the service mesh deploys in pairs, encrypts and traffic-engineers the replication and vMotion migration flows it sends to the peer site.
Also called HCX Interconnect.
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Terms in this definition
- Mobility Agent
Removing this host object breaks HCX vMotion, Cold and Replication Assisted vMotion migrations, which need it. The HCX-IX appliance places it in vCenter, and whatever resources it shows do not represent actual consumption.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- VCF Operations HCX
Add-on licensed for moving workloads inside and between VCF private clouds and linking those environments, offering bulk or live migration plus network extension so IP addresses can stay the same.
- Service mesh
In HCX, the object that links a source compute profile to a destination one (together with their network profiles) and deploys paired service appliances, such as Interconnect and Network Extension, at both sites. Moving where appliances sit requires a resync, and adding further meshes scales out migration capacity.
- vMotion
Moves a running VM to another host with no downtime; its storage counterpart, Storage vMotion, relocates the files between datastores instead.
- LSDOU
The sequence in which Group Policy is processed: the local policy first, followed by site, domain and organisational unit policies. The nearest, last-processed setting takes effect unless Enforced or Block Inheritance alters that.
Related terms
- HAV
HCX method in which migration data flows host to host, directly between source and target ESX servers, using native cross-vCenter vMotion that HCX orchestrates; the HCX-IX appliance handles control traffic alone.