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.
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Terms in this definition
- HCX vMotion
Live migration in HCX, one VM per move: the running machine is carried to the paired site over vMotion together with its memory and execution state, keeping its IP and MAC addresses, so users see no outage. Inter-site bandwidth and latency govern how long it takes.
- Cold
Online access tier for blobs that costs less to store than Cool but more to read, while data stays instantly available.
- RAV
Replication Assisted vMotion: unlike HCX vMotion, which moves one VM at a time, this VCF Operations HCX migration type replicates large numbers of VMs in parallel and keeps them in sync until a scheduled switchover, when each moves live through a final delta vMotion. It is the choice for zero-downtime migration of big waves.
- HCX-IX
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.
- vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- Consumption
Serverless, event-driven Azure Functions hosting plan charged per execution; runs are capped at 10 minutes and VNet integration isn't available.