In VMware Aria Operations you can use VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) to perform application migration, workload rebalancing, and business continuity across data centers and clouds. You can also migrate workloads from on-premises data centers to VMware Cloud.

Earlier when you performed HCX bulk migration to migrate workloads from one datacenter to another datacenter, or from one datacenter to VMware Cloud. VMware Aria Operations failed to retain the historic metrics.

Now VMware Aria Operations has implemented a solution which is triggered during HCX migration. The event helps VMware Aria Operations to collect details and manage the target vCenter to identify the workload migration.

After mapping the right attributes of VMs in the source datacenter with the VMs in the destination datacenter, you can verify if VMware Aria Operations is able to retain all the historical metrics. The HCX migration types supported in VMware Aria Operations are:

  • Bulk Migration
  • vMotion Based Migration (hot & cold)

  • Replication Assisted Migration

HCX vMotion

VMware Aria Operations performs the following actions during HCX vMotion.
  • Get the target VCI, VM-VC-MOID from event using the resource key.
  • Get the source VCID, VM-VC-MOID from event using the resource key.
  • Maps the correct target VCID, VM-VC-MOID to the source VM in VMware Aria Operations.

vMotion Generic Scenario

VMware Aria Operations performs the following actions during vMotion.
  • Get the target VCI, VM-VC-MOID from event using the resource key.
  • Detects the discovered target VM in VMware Aria Operations , based on the VCID, VM-VC-MOID attribute.
  • For the detected target VMs, get VMs with VM Entity Instance UUID, and map the VCID, VM-VC-MOID for these VMs.
  • Search VCID, VM-VC-MOID in the event message to find the actual vMotion VM.
  • Set the correct target VCID, VM-VC-MOID to the right VM in on source VMware Aria Operations.
Note: To know more about HCX Migration, see VMware HCX Product Documentation.