You can view the VMware HCX Manager details deployed per VMware vCenter.
To access the VMware HCX Manager page, from the left navigation pane, go to Environments and select VMware HCX Manager. Alernatively, search HCX Manager to list all the VMware HCX Managers. VMware Aria Operations for Networks also supports search for all the VMware HCX entities.
The VMware HCX Manager page displays the list of sites, click any of the sites to open the VMware HCX Manager details page of that site.
In the VMware HCX Manager details page you see the following sections.
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Overview |
Note: Only the sites that are added as VMware HCX data sources in
VMware Aria Operations for Networks are shown in these tabs.
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Alerts | You see the list of various alerts raised based on the health of the VMware HCX entities and any misconfigurations between the paired VMware HCX sites. |
Flows |
VMware Aria Operations for Networks identifies the flows going over the VMware HCX network extension tunnels and enriches them with the information of the VMware HCX L2 extension entity.
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Metrics | You see the metrics details of the VMware HCX appliances VMs and hosts, tunnels, and appliance VM network utilization. |
In addition to the VMware HCX Manager details page, you can also see the insights about the VMware HCX entities. You can access the VMware HCX entity pages from the VMware HCX Manager details page or directly search for them in the VMware Aria Operations for Networks search.
VMware HCX Site
You see the list of properties and alerts of the selected VMware HCX Site.
VMware HCX Service Mesh
VMware HCX service mesh is a group of VMware HCX services deployed between two site.
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Top Talking Entities Over L2 Extensions: In this widget, you can see the top talking entities like VM pairs, L2 networks, VMware HCX L2 extensions, etc over the network extension tunnels that belong to the current VMware HCX Manager.
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Flows Per L2 Extensions: In this widget, you see the number of flows and the related flow metrics for each L2 extension entity in the current VMware HCX Manager.
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Tromboning Flows Per L2 Extension: In this widget, you see the tromboning flows that traverse from the remote site to the local site and then back to the remote site via the network extension tunnels.
This helps you to identify if you want to enable Mobility Optimized Networking on the participating L2 extensions so that the flows from VMs in the remote sites can directly traverse over the remote gateway.
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Flows Per Appliance Pair: In this widget, you see the flows over the network extension tunnels and related metrics grouped by the network extension appliance pairs.
- List of properties and alerts.
- List of all the VMware HCX service and tunnel entities under that service mesh.
VMware HCX Service
VMware HCX service is a part of the service mesh that is responsible for the VMware HCX features like interconnect, network extension, bulk migrations, etc.
In this entity page, you see a list of all the properties and alerts of the selected VMware HCX service.
VMware HCX Appliances
VMware HCX appliance is a VM that runs the VMware HCX services. VMware Aria Operations for Networks supports VMware HCX interconnect appliance, VMware HCX network extension appliance, and the VMware HCX WAN optimisation appliance.
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Top Talking Entities Over L2 Extensions: In this widget, you can see the top talking entities like VM pairs, L2 networks, VMware HCX L2 extensions, etc over the network extension tunnels that belong to the current VMware HCX Manager.
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Flows Per L2 Extensions: In this widget, you see the number of flows and the related flow metrics for each L2 extension entity in the current VMware HCX Manager.
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Tromboning Flows Per L2 Extension: In this widget, you see the tromboning flows that traverse from the remote site to the local site and then back to the remote site via the network extension tunnels.
This helps you to identify if you want to enable Mobility Optimized Networking on the participating L2 extensions so that the flows from VMs in the remote sites can directly traverse over the remote gateway.
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Flows Per Appliance Pair: In this widget, you see the flows over the network extension tunnels and related metrics grouped by the network extension appliance pairs.
In this entity page, you also see a list of properties, alerts, and metrics for the selected VMware HCX appliance.
VMware HCX Tunnels
VMware HCX tunnel is an overlay tunnel between the VMware HCX appliances.
In this entity page, you see a list of properties, alerts, and metrics for the selected VMware HCX tunnel entity.
VMware HCX L2 Extension
VMware HCX L2 extension stretches an L2 network from one site to another.
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Top Talking Entities Over L2 Extensions: In this widget, you can see the top talking entities like VM pairs, L2 networks, VMware HCX L2 extensions, etc over the network extension tunnels that belong to the current VMware HCX Manager.
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Flows Per L2 Extensions: In this widget, you see the number of flows and the related flow metrics for each L2 extension entity in the current VMware HCX Manager.
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Tromboning Flows Per L2 Extension: In this widget, you see the tromboning flows that traverse from the remote site to the local site and then back to the remote site via the network extension tunnels.
This helps you to identify if you want to enable Mobility Optimized Networking on the participating L2 extensions so that the flows from VMs in the remote sites can directly traverse over the remote gateway.
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Flows Per Appliance Pair: In this widget, you see the flows over the network extension tunnels and related metrics grouped by the network extension appliance pairs.
In this entity page, you also see a list of properties and applications with flows over the VMware HCX L2 extension.
VMware HCX Network Profile
In this entity page, you see a list of properties and alerts for the selected VMware HCX network profile entity
VMware HCX Compute Profile
In this entity page, you see a list of properties and alerts for the selected VMware HCX compute profile.
You can set analytics threshold events on the HCX Tunnel and the HCX Appliance Metrics. For more information aboutanalytics thresholds, see Working with Analytics.
You can also use Guided Network Troubleshooting to troubleshoot VMware HCX entities from a single page. To troubleshoot VMware HCX entities, in the VMware HCX Manager details page or in any of the VMware HCX entity page, click the Troubleshoot icon located near the top-right corner.