VMware HCX 3.5.3 Release Notes

Updated on: 08 January 2021

What's in the Release Notes

• About VMware HCX
• Supported HCX Service Updates
• Previous Releases

 

About VMware HCX

VMware HCX delivers secure and seamless app mobility and infrastructure hybridity across vSphere 6.0 and later versions, both on-premises and in the cloud. HCX abstracts the distinct private or public vSphere resources and presents a Service Mesh as an end-to-end entity. The HCX Interconnect can then provide high-performance, secure, and optimized multi-site connectivity to achieve infrastructure hybridity and present multiple options for bi-directional virtual machine mobility with technologies that facilitate the modernization of legacy data centers.

For more information, see the VMware HCX User Guide in the VMware Documentation Center.

Support Disclaimer  

Prior to raising a support request for HCX, the affected systems MUST reflect one of the four most recent HCX Service Updates.  For more details, see the Service Updates section of the VMware HCX Service Description.  

The following applies as of HCX Service Update R147 released January 08, 2021:

• Supported HCX Service Updates: R147, R146, R145, and R144.
• HCX Release R137 is the oldest version suitable for upgrade. Customers are required to upgrade to the latest release to regain support. 
• Assistance with upgrading from out-of-support releases will be on a best-effort basis.
• HCX Systems running R136 or older will require re-installation and may be flagged for deactivation.
• ALL HCX components must be upgraded every time.
• VMware sends administrative messages to HCX systems that are running out of support and require upgrade. 
  
  Refer to the HCX User Guide for complete upgrade instructions.

HCX Support Policy for Vacating Legacy vSphere Environments
A legacy vSphere environment is defined as any vSphere installation that has exceeded the General Availability support phase but is within Technical Guidance. Refer to VMware Product Lifecycle Matrix for version-specific vSphere lifecycle information.
 
The following support policy applies: 

• If the environment is under Technical Guidance
  • HCX supports migrations from legacy vSphere environments. (HCX Connector only.)
  • HCX does not support migration to legacy vSphere environments.
• If the environment is out of Technical Guidance
  • Legacy vSphere environments exceeding the End of Technical Guidance date are not supported under this policy. 

This policy applies to all HCX deployments for any on-premises or cloud environment.
 

 

Supported HCX Service Updates

HCX R147 - Released January 08, 2021

VMware HCX R147 Release Notes | 08 January 2021 | Build 17359358 (Connector), Build 17359403 (Cloud)

Maintenance Update

About the HCX R147 Release
HCX R147 is a maintenance release that provides underlying improvements and resolves a number of issues. No new features are provided in this release. 

Key Issues

Resolved HCX Interconnect Issues

• PR/2019011 – If a destination HCX site is deactivated, HCX Interconnect service workflows that are in progress may hang with no indication of the issue. Workflows now fail with the clear error message indicating deactivation of the remote endpoint.

Resolved Network Extension Issues

• PR/2668763 – If MON is disabled due to the license not being enabled, no indication of that is provided in the Network Extension wizard or UI. The MON toggle button now appears as inactive instead of no indicator.

Resolved Migration Issues

• PR/2680404 – The storage policy is not applied during a RAV migration.

Resolved OS Assisted Migration Issues

• PR/2681699 – For OSAM Mobility Group migrations triggered from PowerCLI, the system configuration values like memory, disk, and CPU are shown as "?" in the UI.
   
• PR/2681701 – OSAM migration status shows the options "removeISOs" and "removeSnapshots," which are not applicable.
   
• PR/2687989 – Failure in getting NIC teaming information results in migration failure.

Deprecation Notices

The legacy migration REST APIs are now deprecated and will be unavailable in an upcoming release.
 Note: All supported HCX releases were transitioned to use mobility migration APIs by May 2020.  

• Legacy migration REST APIs reference the path /hybridity/api/migrations/
• Mobility migration REST APIs reference the path /hybridity/api/mobility/migrations/

 

HCX R146 - Released December 04, 2020

VMware HCX R146 Release Notes | 04 December 2020 | Build 17250318 (Connector), Build 17250319 (Cloud)

Maintenance Update

About the HCX R146 Release
HCX R146 is a maintenance release that provides underlying improvements and resolves a number of issues. No new features are provided in this release. These release notes also provide deprecation of support notices for various HCX deployments or functionality. 

Critical Update for Replication Assisted vMotion
RAV infrastructure has been enhanced to emulate VMFS6 functionality to allow direct migrations from vCenter 5.5 as a source into any vCenter with VMFS6 Datastore on target.

Key Issues

Resolved Migration Issues

• PR/2555704 – Reverse vMotion or Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV) migration of a virtual machine may fail after a forward vMotion or RAV migration from an ESXi 6.0.0 or lower host and source vCenter version greater than 6.0.0.
   
• PR/2662448 – For OS Assisted Migrations, cancelled migrations are not completely cleaned up in the HCX database, which can eventually cause the VMware HCX Sentinel Data Receiver (HCX-SDR) to report incorrect available capacity.
   
• PR/2667220 – For OS Assisted Migration, selection of an opaque network while configuring network mapping for a migration results in the virtual machine not being connected to specified network, but migration still gets marked as succeeded.
   
• PR/2672431 – For OS Assisted Migration, Mobility Group migration fails when triggered through PowerCLI.

Resolved Service Mesh Deployment Issues

• PR/2672963 – Updated expired license for WAN Optimization (WO) appliance causing the service pipeline to be down and disrupting migration workflows. The appliance must be “re-deploy” for the license to be updated. Refer to KB 81558 for details.​

Deprecation Notices

Deprecation Notice for HCX Cloud Environments 
Note:  HCX does not support HCX Cloud deployments with VMware software that has reached the End of General Support date.

• NSX-T Data Center 2.4 or older
• NSX for vSphere 6.3 or older
• vCloud Director 9.5 or older

Deprecation Notice for VROPS Management Pack for HCX 

• HCX Management Pack 5.0 and below

Deprecation Notice for HCX Connector Environments 
HCX Connector is not supported with vSphere environments that have reached end of Technical Guidance:

• HCX Connector deployments with vSphere 5.5

Note: vSphere 6.0 remains supported for legacy evacuations until it reaches End of Technical Guidance in March 2022.

 

HCX R145 - Released October 30, 2020

VMware HCX R145 Release Notes | 30 October 2020 | Build 17114088 (Connector), Build 17114089 (Cloud)

New Features

HCX for VMware Cloud on AWS Enhancements 

• With this release, HCX for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs support all HCX Advanced services as well as select HCX Enterprise class services with no additional license requirement and at no additional cost.
  • Replication Assisted vMotion
  •  Mobility Optimized Networking
  • Application Path Resiliency
  • TCP Flow Conditioning​
  • Mobility Groups
    Note: HCX Mobility Groups support integration with vRealize Network Insight, available as a separate license. This integration allows the creation of mobility groups from VMware vRealize Network Insight discovered applications to HCX for wave planning and migration.
• These services are available for all new and upgrade installations. The latest HCX release must be installed at both the cloud (destination) and on-premises (source) site. See VMware HCX in the VMware Cloud on AWS. 

General Availability for HCX Mobility Optimized Networking for VMware Cloud on AWS

•  Mobility Optimized Networking is now fully supported in VMware Cloud on AWS. The feature allows customers to manage network traffic based on the locality of the source and destination virtual machines. See HCX Network Extension with Mobility Optimized Networking for NSX-T.

HCX vCenter Alarm Enhancements 

• HCX generates a set of migration, infrastructure, and connection alarms that it sends to the vCenter Server. See VMware vCenter HCX Alarms.

HCX UI Enhancements

• With HCX migration and protection services, you apply settings globally, or individually on a per virtual machine basis. The Migration wizard messaging for changing individual virtual machine settings has been changed from "reset to default selection" with "reset to global selection." 
• Updated text and menu options in the Compute Profile and Service Mesh UIs to replace DVS references with Network Container to accurately reflect the options available for the selections.
• The Disaster Recovery UI is updated to make the virtual machine network an optional setting instead of a mandatory selection.
• For the Extended Options selection in the Migration UI, the Back button is replaced with the Save button.
• An indicator is added to highlight that an HCX Uplink Network Profile override has been implemented in the Service Mesh.

Network Extension Enhancements

• HCX Service Mesh Scale Out for Network Extension
  HCX now enables Network Extension deployments to be scaled out with a dedicated NE service mesh using existing Compute Profile cluster pairs.  This allows users with single cluster deployments to separate Network Extension and Migration traffic into their own dedicated Uplink networks.
  
  Note: The additional service mesh cannot be used for migration operations.
   

Key Issues

Resolved Migration Issues

• PR/2448389 – RAV migrations into VMFS6 target datastores fail due to Service Mesh IX being in an inconsistent state. Refer to KB 80406.
   
• PR/2602420 – Bulk migrations stall if communication to destination HCX is lost momentarily during switchover.
   
• PR/2655423 – Migrations fail due to incorrect vCD login during client instantiation.
  .
• PR/2638085 – Bulk migrations stall when the source disk is not a multiple of 1024. The workflow will now fail initial validation and resolution will be required per recommendations in VMware KB 2061047.
   
• PR/2661258 – HCXvMotion and RAV migrations fail in deployments where ESXi is 7.0 U1 is running on both source and destination sites.
   
• PR/2662073 – Cancel followed by “Force Cleanup” of a Cold migration may cause the VM to be removed from both source and destination site. Restoration from backup will be required to recover the VM.

Resolved Protection Issues

• PR/260792 – Disaster Recovery UI NIC-level guest customizations are not applied when configured. Options for entering customizations are now removed from the Disaster Recovery UI.

Security Issues

• In order to ensure security compliance for all the HCX components, TLS 1.2 will be the only encryption protocol supported. Full deprecation of older protocols is planned for a future release.

 

HCX R144 - Released October 5, 2020

VMware HCX R144 Release Notes | 05 October 2020 | Build 16989452 (Connector), Build 16989451 (Cloud)

New Features

vRealize Operations HCX Management Pack 

• vRealize Operations HCX Management Pack 5.1 supports vRealize Operations version 8.1.1 and above. HCX Management Pack 5.1 is supported in environments where the site pair is between one HCX Connector (source) and one HCX Cloud Manager or one VMware Cloud on AWS destination.

Migration Enhancements 

• vMotion and Replication Assisted vMotion migrations of virtual machines using HW version 17 is now supported.
   

HCX APIs

• With this release, the set of HCX APIs is updated and includes additional system and services monitoring requests.  To access the public set of HCX APIs, you can explore the HCX API references. If you have HCX Connector or HCX Cloud Manager installed, you can review the set of HCX APIs at https://<hcxmanager IP or FQDN>/hybridity/docs.

 

Key Issues

Resolved Migration Issues

• PR/2649313 – Retrying a failed Replication Assisted vMotion migration would fail, and subsequent attempts to move a virtual machine would fail with "a specified parameter is not correct" error. 

• PR/2386593 – Trying to migrate a virtual machine to a destination cluster that is not enabled for migration in the destination Compute Profile generates a vague error message.

• PR/2602420 – Switchover job does not progress after a temporary communication issue to the target HCX Manager.

Resolved Network Extension Issues

• PR/2634788 – If HCX is managing vCenters in linked mode, then, from the vCenter HCX plug-in GUI, the Network Extension page would not render.

Resolved Service Mesh Deployment Issues

• PR/2557481 – HCX Service Mesh deployments did not detect IP addresses that were already in use in system. HCX Service Mesh now detects when an IP address is already in use and displays an error message.
   

Security Issues

• Compliance with vSphere Hardening 
  HCX is updated for compliance with vSphere VMware Security Hardening Guides.
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Previous Releases

To view a list of previous releases, click here.

 

HCX R143 - Released September 8, 2020

VMware HCX R143 Release Notes | 08 September 2020 | Build 16812445 (Connector), Build 16812446 (Cloud)

New Features

Scaling Out HCX in VMC with Multi-Edge SDDC

With this release, HCX is ready for VMware Cloud on AWS Multi-Edge environments, creating dedicated high-bandwidth network paths for HCX Network Extension and Migration operations. By default, VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs use a single edge router (T0) through which all North-South traffic flows. You can configure your SDDC to be Multi-Edge using traffic groups, which create additional T0 routers. The HCX Cloud Manager detects these traffic groups and makes them available as HCX Uplink Networks.

HCX in VMC with VMware Transit Connect

With this release, HCX is ready to support Transit VIFs for HCX migration and Network Extension services. This allows HCX operations to leverage high-bandwidth, low-latency connections between SDDCs using the VMware Transit Connect service.
 

VMware HCX Integration with vRealize Network Insight

This HCX release supports integration with vRealize Network Insight 5.3 to build migration waves based on Application Discovery and Dependency Analytics. Application Groups can now be defined in vRNI and then exported using public APIs from vRNI to HCX as Mobility Groups. You then prepare for migration using the HCX Mobility Group configuration procedures.
 

General Availability for HCX with vSphere 7.0 

• This HCX release adds support for environments that use vSphere 7.0 (VDS 7.0) and NSX-T 3.0.1+.  This feature was in Preview with HCX R142.
• Summary of updates for vSphere 7.0 in this release:
  • HCX enables users to adopt VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 as the destination environment.
  • HCX can be used with any destination environments that uses vSphere 7.0 with NSX-T 3.0.1+.
  • Limited functionality has been added for vSphere 7.0 based source environments.​
    
    vSphere 7.0 related HCX feature details are provided in the sections below. 

Migration Enhancements

• HCX has been updated to enable virtual machine migrations in the following vSphere 7.0 scenarios:
  • All HCX migration operations from source vSphere 5.5 – 6.7  to destinations built with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.
  • All HCX migration operations from source vSphere 5.5 – 6.7 to destinations built with vSphere 7.0 with NSX 3.0.1+.
  • Limitations from vSphere 7.0 source environments to any HCX Cloud destination:
    • All HCX migration operations are available for virtual machines with Hardware version 9 – 15.
    • Only Bulk migration operations are available for virtual machines with Hardware version 17. (This limitation should be noted when multiple connected cloud environments use vSphere 7.0.  This limitation will be addressed in a future release.
  • Migration UI Enhancement: In scenarios where a virtual machine network exists across hosts as both a NSX-T Logical Segment, and a VDS 7.0 Distributed Port Group, the HCX migration interface has been updated to only display the NSX-T Logical Segment name.   
     

Network Extension Enhancements

• HCX has been updated to enable Network Extension in the following vSphere 7.0 scenarios:
  •  vSphere VDS 5.1 – 6.7 networks can now be extended to vSphere 7.0 HCX clouds.
  • vSphere VDS 7.0 networks can now be extended to vSphere 7.0 HCX clouds. 
  • NSX-T VLAN and Overlay segments can now be extended to vSphere 7.0 HCX clouds.
  • Caveats:
    • The HCX Network Extension service creates overlay segments at the destination, this behavior is still true with vSphere 7.0 destinations.
       
• HCX Service Mesh Enhancements

• The HCX Service Mesh appliances can be deployed using vSphere 7.0 based resources and VDS 7.0/NSX-T 3.0.1 networks​.
   

Key Issues

Resolved Network Extension Issues

• PR/2404124 – Network Extension appliance redeployments fail with “portKey\\\": array contains null at index 0” error when a source extended network has ephemeral port bindings. Network Extension of Ephemeral Port Groups is not supported and is now prevented in the UI.

• PR/2444658 – Prior to this release, the Network Extension created or connected to NSX-T Fixed segments. The extension operation would fail in environments with pre-created NSX Flexible segments.

  Network Extension now succeeds with pre-existing Fixed and Flexible segments. HCX defaults to creating Flexible segments when the network does not already exist in the NSX Tier 1 Router.  HCX continues to create fixed segments when extending to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.

Resolved Virtual Machine Migration Issues

• PR/2617190 – Replication-based migrations of virtual machines with multiple disks to destinations with VMFS 6 Datastores on vSphere 7.0 do not complete. The operations are stuck in the COLLECT_TARGET_SIDE_TRANSFER_STATUS state and display “Storage is locked” NFC errors in the logs.
   
• PR/2601145 – When removing a Bulk Migration or RAV switchover schedule, HCX rolls back the migration and fails with a “Replication is not enabled for the transfer” error. 
   
• PR/2551152 – When a DNS Suffix is given in the Bulk Migration Extended Options without also providing the DNS Servers, the DNS Suffix configuration is not sent to the guest OS during the Guest Customization phase.
   
• PR/2562199 – Corrected a network mapping discrepancy that causes virtual machines to be placed on the None network when performing a reverse migration.
   
• PR/2584680 – vMotion Migrations fail when the EULA section in the virtual machine OVF is more than 3 MB long.

• PR/2625494 – Fixed an issue that causes Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV) or HCX vMotion migrations to an HCX Cloud from two or more HCX Connectors to stall with a 'Waiting for Resource Availability' task.

Resolved Service Mesh Deployment Migration Issues

• PR/2515405 – Service Mesh deployments fails when static route configurations overlap with Network Profile networks without giving clear indication of the configuration error.

Resolved Virtual Machine Migration and Protection Issues

• PR/2607734 -- Fixed an issue where HCX incorrectly lists Virtual Networks during selection of target networks for network mapping of source virtual machine workloads. Virtual Networks are no longer displayed as options for target network selection.

Resolved HCX User Interface Issues

• PR/2614011 – Corrected a sorting problem that causing inventory lists to be displayed in random order in various HCX User Interfaces . The inventory lists are now correctly sorted by type and name prior to being displayed.
   
• PR/2606348 – The HCX Bulk Migration and Disaster Recovery interface incorrectly allows HCX managed Virtual Networks to be selected, resulting in virtual machines connected to the "None" network, after a Bulk migration or DR Recover operation.  These HCX networks have been filtered from the UI.
  ​

 

HCX R142 - Released July 26, 2020

VMware HCX R142 Release Notes | 26 July 2020 | Build 16639459 (Connector), Build 16639460 (Cloud)

New Features

OS Assisted Migration Enhancements  

With this release, the HCX OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1  & UEFI/GEN-2), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32-bit (BIOS/GEN-1) operating systems on Hyper-V hypervisors. ​

For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX.

VMware HCX Product Interoperability with vSphere 7.0 (Preview)

• This HCX release adds support for environments that use vSphere 7.0 (VDS 7.0) and NSX-T 3.0.1. 

Migration Enhancements  

• This release includes the ability for virtual machines to retain the custom attributes in the Annotation field of the virtual machine's properties after vMotion migration.

Network Extension Enhancements

• With this release, the HCX Network Extension service UI is redesigned to better support multiple site pairings with multiple Service Mesh configurations. The Network Extension interface initially displays the list of site pairings. Each site pairing can be expanded to display the Service Mesh configurations associated with that pairing. Each Service Mesh can be expanded to display the associated Network Extensions. You add additional networks for extension based on the Service Mesh selection. 

HCX Service Mesh Enhancements

• With this release, the workflow for editing a Service Mesh includes a preview screen that summarizes the changes and describes the impact of those changes on related HCX services.  After reviewing the summary, you can choose to continue or cancel the operation.

Serviceability Enhancements

• Tech Support logs now includes the high-level system state and details that were previously obscured within the database contents.
   

Key Issues

Resolved OS Assisted Migration Issues

• PR/2560342 - Resolved an issue where storage verifications failed for a Linux virtual machine that had a physical volume that was not attached to any volume group.  If, for example, there were 2 physical volumes, /dev/sda1 and  /dev/sdb1 and the volume group was attached to only /dev/sda1, then the HCX Sentinel agent software running on the guest virtual machine reported 2 physical volumes to the HCX Sentinel Data Receiver (SDR) appliance. The SDR tried to associate /dev/sdb1 to a volume group and since it could not, the storage verification failed. With this release physical volumes not associated with a volume group are not reported.

• PR/2587556 - Resolved an issue where the HCX Sentinel Data Receiver (SDR) appliance failed to create the storage for a Linux virtual machine that had a volume group which was not associated with any logical volume.

  If, for example, there are 2 volume groups, /dev/vg01 and /dev/vg02, and there was a logical volume only on top of /dev/vg01 and not on /dev/vg02, then the HCX SDR failed to create the storage in this situation. With this release, the HCX SDR creates the storage even when there are no logical volumes on a volume group.

Resolved Migration Issues

• PR/2513263 - Resolved an issue where the migration progress percentage and migration status was displayed incorrectly. This enhancement applies to all types of HCX migrations.

Resolved Serviceability and Usability Issues

• PR/2353393 - Resolved an issue that prevented the preview of the required firewall rules when creating a compute profile.
   
• PR/2491233 - Resolved an issue where the dynamically generated FOU tunnels established as part of an IPSec connection were not being displayed causing the tunnel status to incorrectly show as Down. This was seen for both the HCX Interconnect and HCX Network Extension IPSec tunnels.
   
• PR/2599292 - Resolved an issue that prevented the deployment of a Multi-Site Service Mesh with error "Unable to fetch NSX-T Transport Zone from Configured Compute in Compute Profile" when using NSX-T 3.0.
   
• PR/2585914 – Resolved a cosmetic issue that prevented a site paring to be disconnected when the remote peer is no longer available. The new process may take several minutes to complete validation before proceeding with the removal.
  
   

HCX R141 - Released June 26, 2020

VMware HCX R141 Release Notes | 26 June 2020 | Build 16460208 (Connector), Build 16460210 (Cloud)

New Features

OS Assisted Migration Enhancements  

• Additional OS Support
  For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX.
  • Support for OSAM Migration of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
    With this release, the HCX OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 32-bit and 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1  & UEFI/GEN-2), and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1  & UEFI/GEN-2) operating systems on Hyper-V hypervisors. 
     
  • Support for OSAM Migration of CentOS 7.8 and RHEL 7.8 Virtual Machines on KVM and Hyper-V
    With this release, the HCX OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running RHEL 7.8 164-bit and CentOS 7.8 64-bit 18.04 on KVM and Hyper-V hypervisors. ​
     

Serviceability Enhancements

• vCenter Alarms
  The HCX Manager maintains ongoing communication with connect.hcx.vmware.com for system licensing and heuristics. If that connection is broken, the HCX Manager now generates a vCenter alarm. 

• Force Removal of Inactive DR Protections   
  Following a failed DR Protection operation, where replication is inactive and the inventory record becomes not actionable from the UI, use the Force Remove option to delete that protection and clear all internal objects. The option may need to be run more than once, at source and destination HCX Managers. The VM will be removed from the inventory of protected VMs and it will become available to start a new DR protection.
  
  The Force Remove operation clears all protection and replication data for that VM and the option is intended to be used as a last resource only, once the underlying cause for the failure has been identified. The recommendation is to always collect the support bundle on both HCX Connector and Cloud Manager prior to executing the removal for post analysis.
   

Key Issues

Resolved Migration Issues

• PR/2441241 – Improved the data flow performance of the Host Based Replication Server (HBRSVR) to better handle VR Bulk Migration of large VMs with high data change rate.
   
• PR/2572289 – Fixed an issue causing Bulk migrations that remain in initial sync state for more than 7 days after stop receiving replication updates
   
• PR/2575521 – Fixed a rare condition where a failed vMotion or Cold migration workflow, caused by the loss of communication with the target host during the initial stages of the relocation and if aborted by the user via the UI, it may result on the removal of the source VM.

Resolved Platform Issues

• PR/2557328 – Fixed an issue with the messaging service in HCX Connector and Cloud Manager that may cause messages to be dropped unexpectedly during startup. A restart of Application service will restore the messaging service. Refer to the Troubleshooting section in the HCX documentation for more details on restarting services. The version of Kafka server included in HCX has been updated to 2.5.0 to address this and several other issues found with the previous version 2.3.1.
   
• PR/2528346 – Fixed an issue causing HCX components to send all local traffic to the default gateway when the Management and Uplink interfaces are part of the same Network Profile.

Resolved Deployment Issues

• PR/2561743 – Fixed an issue preventing deployment of the HCX Network Extension if the HCX Connector is not configured with NSX.
   
• PR/2577062 – Fixed an issue causing the failure to create or edit Compute Profiles in the VMware Cloud on AWS.

Resolved Serviceability and Usability Issues

• PR/2373573, PR/2392861, PR/2431276 – Enhanced the enforcement of the communication between the HCX Connector/Cloud Manager and the HCX Service. If the systems remain disconnected over the 7 days grace period, any migration workflows that started prior to the expiration date will be serviced to completion but no new migrations will be allowed until the communication is re-established.
   
• PR/2567151, PR/2482028 – Fixed an issue where the HCX plug-in shows duplicate entries for various screens (service mesh, migration data, site pairings) in environments that are configured in Hybrid Linked Mode.
   

HCX R140 - Released May 20th, 2020

VMware HCX R140 Release Notes | 20 May 2020 | Build 16246370 (Connector), Build 16246360 (Cloud)

Service update R140 is optional. Customers may choose not to upgrade unless the resolution for a product defect or a new feature functionality is required.

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements  
  • Support for OSAM Migration of CentOS 6.x Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
    With this release, the HCX OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running CentOS 6.x 32-bit and 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1) Operating Systems on Hyper-V hypervisors. For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX.
     
• Mobility Optimized Networking
  • Mobility Optimized Networking (MON) integrates HCX Network Extension with NSX-T policy-based routing and distributed routing to enable migrated virtual machines to reach other virtual machines optimally, without tromboning between sites. Currently released for Early Adoption (EA), MON requires the HCX Enterprise license and is supported in environments with NSX-T 3.0 running at the destination site, independent of the cloud provider. MON can be configured per network or per virtual machine, toggled on or off for existing extended networks, and selected for when to switch over: immediately or upon a specified virtual machine event.
  • Network Extension with Proximity Routing is deprecated and no longer available with only limited support for existing users.
     
• Network Extension Enhancements
  • Extending Networks from Source Sites with both vSphere and NSX-T Distributed Switches
    If your source site has vSphere Virtual Distributed Switches (vDS) and NSX-T Distributed Switches (N-VDS) with virtual machine networks that you want to extend, you can select either or both types of switches for Network Extension. Previously, you could select one, but not both types of switches.
    
    Switch selection for Network Extension is done in the Compute Profile. Only the virtual machine networks on the selected Distributed Switches appear in the Network Extension UI for network extension operations.
     
• VMware Product Interoperability Enhancements
  • HCX with NSX-T 3.0 (on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7) at the Destination Environment
    This release includes HCX support for destination environments running vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 with NSX-T 3.0.
    • Reference the VMware Product Interoperability Matrices for the specific vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 versions supported NSX-3.0.
    • This update does not include support for NSX-T 3.0 in the HCX Connector, or source HCX Cloud in a cloud-to-cloud deployment.
    • This update does not include support for NSX-T 3.0 with vSphere 7.0  
       
• Migration Enhancements
  • Detection of High-Activity Virtual Machines in HCX Mobility Groups
    HCX migrations have two phases: Transfer and Switchover. Virtual machines experiencing very high disk writes can cause Transfer intervals where the virtual machine change data exceeds the achievable migration throughput.  This high-activity condition can prolong the Switchover phase beyond the scheduled migration window, disrupting the migration operation.  With this release, HCX uses VMware vCenter Server heuristics and internal Recovery Point Objective data to provide early detection of high-activity virtual machines, to calculate the impact on migrations, and generate Critical Alerts for at-risk migrations.

  • Clearing the Migration History
    This release includes the Archive option for clearing migration activity. The Archive option clears all selected migrations. It can be used with failed, cancelled, and completed migrations. Clearing the migration history updates the HCX Dashboard migration counters but does not remove the migration related details from the HCX log files.

  • Force Clean Up for Failed or Cancelled OS Assisted Migrations 
    Following a failed or cancelled migration, you can use the Force Clean selection in the Migration UI to clear internal HCX operations and processes manually from source and destination sites. Originally released with the HCX R138 Service Update with support for Bulk, vMotion, and Replication Assisted Migration, Force Clean is now available with OS Assisted Migration.

• Traffic Engineering Enhancements
  • HCX Service Mesh Updated to Display Enabled Traffic Engineering Features
    The HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh UI now displays enabled Traffic Engineering features (Application Path Resiliency and TCP Flow Conditioning). You also can view which appliances are using the Traffic Engineering features by selecting Appliances in the Service Mesh UI.

• HCX Platform Mobility Enhancements
  In this release, the platform mobility enhancements introduced in HCX release R135 are available for Bulk and vMotion migrations in VMware Cloud Director (vCD) clouds. For more detailed information regarding Platform Mobility Enhancements, see the HCX R135 Service Updates section of these release notes.

 

Key Issues

• Resolved Platform Issues
  PR/2569288 – Resolved an issue with potential session timeouts for the messaging service on HCX Connector or HCX Cloud Manager after three weeks uptime. A proactive restart of Application and Web Engine services will prevent this issue and it may be required to proceed with the upgrade. Refer to the Troubleshooting section in the HCX documentation for more details on restarting services.
   
• Resolved Migration Issues
  PR/2528071 – Resolved an issue that causes migrations in Waiting for Switchover state to gray out erroneously if the replication is inactive for over two days.
  
  PR/2554288 – Resolved an issue where canceling an in-progress migration does not completely clear all HCX tags, preventing this VM from being migrated again.
   
• Resolved HCX Diagnostics Tools Issues
  PR/2250213 – The HCX Manager Central CLI can be used to make connections to the Service Mesh appliances securely using port 9443.  Resolved an issue causing the CCLI to use TCP port 22.
   
• Resolved HCX Audit Log Issues
  PR/2504579 – Resolved an issue that caused inconsistent ownership of tasks in the HCX audit logs.

 

HCX R139 - Released April 14th, 2020

VMware HCX R139 Release Notes | 14 Apr 2020 | Build 16019594 (Connector), Build 16019552 (Cloud)

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements
  • OSAM Support with vCloud Director Integrated HCX Deployments
    The HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) service enables non-vSphere virtual machines to be migrated into vSphere environments with HCX.  With this release, the OSAM service can be used in vCloud Director based HCX deployments.  
     
  • Support for CentOS 7.x in Hyper-V
    With this release, the HCX OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running CentOS 7.x 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1  & UEFI/GEN-2) guest OS in Hyper-V hypervisors. For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX vMotion Issues
  PR/2201967 - Resolved an issue where vMotion migrations fail in vSphere environments where the migrated virtual machines exist on ESXi 5.5 hosts and are managed by a 6.5 Virtual Center server.
   
• Resolved HCX Migration User Interface Issues
  PR/2538477 - Resolved an issue causing slow responsiveness in the HCX Migration user interface in environments with vSphere inventories that have a large number of networks.
   
• Resolved HCX Network Extension UI Issues
  PR/2540972 -  Resolved an issue that prevented the Network Extension configuration page from rendering correctly.
   
• Resolved HCX Workflow Issues
  PR/2540975 - Resolved an issue preventing the proper execution of configuration and migration workflows on HCX Connector or HCX Cloud Manager after seven days uptime with service update R138. A restart of Application Engine service may be required to proceed with the upgrade. Refer to the Troubleshooting section in the HCX documentation for more details on restarting services.
   
• Resolved HCX Service Responsiveness Issue
  PR/2544433 - Resolved an issue with the HCX Connector or Cloud Manager web-engine service becoming unresponsive due to memory exhaustion when running monitoring services. A restart of Web Engine service may be required to proceed with the upgrade. Refer to the Troubleshooting section in the HCX documentation for more details on restarting services.
   

HCX R138 - Released March 30th, 2020

VMware HCX R138 Release Notes | 30 Mar 2020 | Build 15933394 (Connector), Build 15933704 (Cloud)

IMPORTANT: This service update is no longer available for download. Upgrade to service update R139 or later is required.   

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements
  • Support for Collecting Sentinel Log Files
    With this release, you can collect Sentinel log files as part of a Technical Support bundle to help in troubleshooting OS Assisted Migration issues. To retrieve the files, log in to the HCX administration management interface and navigate to Administration > Troubleshooting > Technical Support Logs.  
     
  • Support for RHEL 6.x in Hyper-V
    With this release, the HCX OSAM service supports migration of virtual machines running RHEL 6.x 32-bit and 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1) guest OS in Hyper-V hypervisors. For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX.
     
• Serviceability Enhancements
  • ​With this release, the HCX Network Extension service prevents several non-supported Network Extension scenarios.  For each scenario, the networks will be grayed out in the Network Extension User Interface:
    • The vSphere Infrastructure (ESXi VMkernel) networks cannot be extended. HCX should only be used to extend virtual machine networks.
    • HCX Network Profile networks cannot be extended.  HCX Network Profiles should not be created using virtual networks that will be extended.
    • Trunk networks cannot be extended.
    • Untagged vSphere networks cannot be extended.
       
  • Force Clean Up for Failed or Cancelled Migrations (Amended)
    Following a failed or cancelled migration, you can use the Force Clean selection to clear internal HCX operations and processes manually from source and destination sites. This selection is available for  Bulk, vMotion, and Replication Assisted vMotion migration.
     

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Deployment Issues
  PR/2532335 - Resolved an issue preventing new HCX Network Extension appliances to be added to an existing service mesh.

• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Diagnostics Issues
  PR/2534861 - Resolved an issue that caused the HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh diagnostics to fail with the error "computeProfileDiagnostics Failed. Reason: JSONObject"interface"] not found."

• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Issues
  PR/2536785 - Resolved an issue causing Compute Profile creation to fail when no Cross-Cloud vMotion Migration service is selected.

• Resolved HCX Central CLI Issues
  PR/2538595 - Resolved an issue causing the hc (health check) Central CLI command to run health checks against remote appliances and reporting them as failed.
   

HCX R137 - Released March 14th, 2020

VMware HCX R137 Release Notes | 14 Mar 2020 | Build 15833796 (Connector), Build 15833771 (Cloud)

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements
  • Upgrading Sentinel Agent Software 
    You install HCX Sentinel agent software on all guest virtual machines that will be using HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM). As part of the overall OSAM upgrade package, this release adds support for updating the Sentinel agent software. 
     
  • Support for RHEL 7.x in Hyper-V
    With this release, the HCX OSAM service supports migration of virtual machines running RHEL 7.x 64-bit (BIOS/GEN-1  & UEFI/GEN-2) guest OS in Hyper-V hypervisors. For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."​
     
• HCX Integration with DICE
  The Data Integrated Customer Engagement (DICE) tool uses customer utilization data to model the business benefits of VMware’s software-defined data center (SDDC) products. Through DICE integration, you configure the HCX interface to upload the virtual appliance and host inventory of the vCenter that is registered with the HCX Manager. 
   
• Compute Profile Folder Selection for HCX Appliances
  The Compute Profile configuration wizard includes an option to select the vSphere folder where HCX appliances should be deployed. This feature requires both sides to be running R137 or newer.
   
• HCX Platform Mobility Enhancements
  In this release, the platform mobility enhancements introduced in HCX release R135 are available for vMotion migrations.
   
• HCX Central CLI Enhancements
  The ability to search the output of the list command is added to the HCX Central CLI through the grep command. The grep command can be used in conjunction with the list command and works similar to grep in Linux. Use the list --help for usage details. With this new feature the --nopager option will be set as the default.
  
   

Key Issues

• Resolved Issues with Multi-Site Service Mesh Updates
  PR/2508347 – Fixed a problem causing Multi-Site Service Mesh updates to fail with the error "The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created" when one of the datastores configured in the compute profile is no longer present.
   

HCX R136 - Released February 29th, 2020

VMware HCX R136 Release Notes | 29 Feb 2020 | Build 15734685 (Connector), Build 15734687 (Cloud)

New Features

• Component Name Change​​
  With this release, the HCX Enterprise Manager component is renamed to HCX Connector. This change has no impact on the functionality, installation, or operation of the system. This change highlights HCX Connector as the system linking enterprise workloads to HCX-enabled private or public clouds.  This change also eliminates ambiguity with the HCX Enterprise feature set.
  
  This change does not impact HCX product licensing. The HCX Enterprise license is required to enable HCX Enterprise features.

•  Compute Profile CPU and Memory Reservations
  The Compute Profile configuration wizard includes an option that sets the percentage of HCX appliance compute and memory requirements to reserve for HCX operation.  For example, setting Memory Reservation to 50 percent, ensures that at least half of the memory used by HCX appliances is always available for HCX operations.

• Support for Storage DRS Datastore Clusters
  The Compute Profile configuration wizard includes an option that allows Datastore Clusters to be selected as a Datastore.

• User Interface Enhancements
  • Multi-Site Service Mesh Search 
    With this release, the Multi-Site Service Mesh user interface includes a search option.  This feature allows name searches on Compute Profiles, Service Mesh configurations, and Network Profiles.
     
  • Network Profile Detailed Display
    For each Network listed in the Network Profiles user interface, you can select show more to view additional details. The display includes the distributed switch name, the network associated with the switch, and the vCenter Server associated with the profile. For NSX Logical Switches, the network detail includes the Transport Zone name.
    .
  • Import Untrusted Certificate during Installation with NSX-T
    The HCX installation wizard provides an option to import self-signed (untrusted) certificates when connecting to an NSX-T Manager. This enhancement helps streamline the installation by removing the need to manually install the certificate through the HCX Appliance Management interface (:9443).

• Serviceability Enhancements

  • ​Check for Service Updates
    A Check for Updates function is added to the System Updates page. This function checks whether you have the latest HCX service update. If an update is available, it adds that update to your currently available service updates. In normal operation, HCX Manager systems automatically receive the latest service update, but if the HCX is offline when a service update is published, HCX systems can miss the update. 

  • Alert Message Operations
    In the HCX Dashboard, the Alerts panel now includes operations for managing, deleting, and filtering alert messages.
    Available operations: Acknowledge, Reset and Suppress.
    Available filters: Status, Entity Name, and Creation Date.

 

HCX R135 - Released February 18th, 2020

VMware HCX R135 Release Notes | 18 Feb 2020 | Build 15665455 (Enterprise), Build 15665456 (Cloud)

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements​​
  With this release, the HCX OS Assisted Migration service supports migration of virtual machines running Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit and 64-bit guest OS in KVM. 
  This release also supports Windows Server 2008 SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit, on KVM and Hyper-V hypervisors.
  
  For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OS Assisted Migration requirements, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."

• HCX Platform Mobility Enhancements
  With this release, the underlying VMware mobility HCX platform has been enhanced for improved robustness and resiliency. The HCX migrations can now run on top of this platform, providing a unified user experience across the migration types supported by HCX. This new mobility platform enables migrations to resume from the certain checkpoints in an event of restarts and hence providing better continuity of the migration execution. Also, the migration dashboard has been updated for improved migration visualization and management. The UI helps a user understand the distinct migration phases: initial data sync and initial copy, continuous data sync, and eventually the switchover.
  
  If you are using APIs, these platform enhancements offer a rich set of RESTful APIs to manage the migration lifecycle. To get the benefits of running migrations on the enhanced mobility platform, you must transition to these new mobility APIs. The mobility APIs are documented in the Mobility section of HCX API documentation: https://<hcxip>/hybridity/docs.
  
  In this release, the platform mobility enhancements are available only for Replication Assisted vMotion and Bulk migrations.
  
  Cisco Nexus 1000v is no longer supported with HCX due to these enhancements.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Deployment Issues
  PR/2472566 - Resolved an issue that prevented the creation of HCX network profiles in NSX-T environments registered with multiple compute managers.
• Resolved Issues with Multi-Site Service Mesh Updates
  PR/2493802 - Resolved an issue preventing HCX Service Mesh IX appliance upgrades from timing out correctly. A timeout of 5 minutes has been implemented.

 

HCX R134 - Released January 31st, 2020

VMware HCX R134 Release Notes | 31 Jan 2020 | Build 15552679 (Enterprise), Build 15552647 (Cloud)

New Features

• HCX Traffic Engineering Technology 
  Available with the HCX Enterprise license, this release includes two new Traffic Engineering technology features:

  • Application Path Resiliency - When configured in the Multi-Site Service Mesh, this feature creates multiple UDP-based tunnels from the source data center to the destination as part of the HCX Interconnect uplink. The Interconnect service intelligently and dynamically routes migration and Network Extension traffic over the optimal path for improved performance and resiliency.

  • TCP Flow Conditioning - When configured in the Multi-Site Service Mesh, this feature dynamically optimizes the segment size during the TCP handshake with Network Extension traffic. This optimization increases the average packet size, and reduces packet fragmentation.

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements​​
  With this release, the HCX OSAM service supports migration of virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 64-bit guest OS in Hyper-V hypervisors. For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."

• Compute Profile and Service Mesh Creation Enhancements
  The HCX UI now generates warning messages during Compute Profile and Service Mesh creation if there are hosts or datastores with triggered vSphere alarms.

• Support for Network Extension in vCloud Director Org VDC Networks Using Distributed Routing
  HCX adds support for stretching a network to a vCloud Director cloud using an Organization Virtual Data Center gateway with distributed routing enabled where the org VDC network interface type is distributed.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Lifecycle Issues
  PR/2463514 - Resolved an issue that allowed concurrent operational Service Mesh or Compute Profile operations while ongoing operations were happening. With this release, operations such as resync, re-deploy, upgrade, edit, and delete are not allowed if there is an active Service Mesh or Compute Profile operation.
   
• Resolved HCX User Interface Issues
  PR/2480505 - Resolved an issue where the HCX UI failed to render correctly when the browser input language was set to French.
   
• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Deployment Issues with OSAM Service Enabled
  PR/2486627 - Resolved an issue seen in vCloud Director based environments where the HCX Sentinel Data Receiver failed to deploy during the Multi-Site Service Mesh creation when the OSAM service was enabled.
   
• ​Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  PR/2492978 - Resolved an issue that could prevent the HCX Network Extension appliance from handling all fragmentation packets under very bursty traffic conditions.
   
• Resolved HCX Central CLI Issues
  PR/2263241 - Resolved an issue causing the WANOPT CCLI commands to fail after the WANOPT has been redeployed.

 

HCX R133 - Released January 18th, 2020

VMware HCX R133 Release Notes | 18 Jan 2020 | Build 15482262 (Enterprise), Build 15482263 (Cloud)

With this release, the use of legacy Interconnect components and upgrade to Multi-Site Service Mesh is no longer supported.

New Features

• Support for extending networks based on NSX-T networking
  This release includes support for extending networks that are based on NSX-T Overlay transport zones.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Replication Issues
  PR/2349422 - Resolved an issue causing bulk migrations and replications to fail in environments where the vSphere replication network has been separated from the management network and the Interconnect appliance (HCX-IX) has been configured to match this environment by dedicating a network interface for replication traffic.
   
• Resolved HCX Appliance Lifecycle Issues
  PR/2456517 - Resolved an issue where a redeploy operation fails to re-add HCX appliances that have been inadvertently removed from the vSphere inventory.
   
• Resolved HCX Lifecycle Issues
  PR/2462803 - Resolved an issue preventing the deletion of a network segment with error "Segment <network segment name> has 1 VMs or VIFs attached. Disconnect all VMs and VIFs before deleting a segment”. The issue is seen only on target side NSX-T based HCX environments.
• Resolved Site Pairing Issues
  PR/2338544 - The HCX Site Pairing interface has been updated to allow the user to accept self-signed certificates during the site pairing operation.

 

HCX R132a - Released December 18th, 2019

VMware HCX R132a Release Notes | 18 Dec 2019 | Build 15328096 (Enterprise), Build  15328118 (Cloud)

HCX release R132a supersedes release R132 (Build 15296463 [Enterprise] and 15296474 [Cloud]) , which is no longer available. If you are running HCX R132, upgrade to R132a as soon as possible to obtain the latest software updates.

New Features

• Support for Cloud-to-Cloud Deployments
  This release supports HCX operations between private or public clouds running vSphere 6.5 or later. Cloud-to-cloud support requires that HCX Cloud Manager is installed at both the source and destination cloud sites, both clouds are running HCX release R132a or later, and site pairing is established between clouds.  By pairing Site A to Site B, and Site B to Site A, you can, in effect, establish bi-directional mobility between clouds.
  
  With this release, the HCX plug-in is available in the vSphere Client menu at any HCX-enabled cloud site for access to HCX services.

• Support for Mobility Groups
  Mobility Groups is an HCX Enterprise License feature that supports assembling one or more virtual machines into logical sets for execution and monitoring of migrations as a group. With Mobility Groups, you have the flexibility to manage migrations for sets of virtual machines by application, network, pod, or other aspects of your environment.

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements​​
  With this release, the HCX OSAM service supports migration of virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit) on KVM hypervisors. For a detailed list of supported operating systems and OSAM requirements, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."

• User Interface Enhancements

  • The Site Pairing function is relocated in the HCX user Interface from Infrastructure > Interconnect > Multi-Site Service Mesh to Infrastructure > Interconnect > Site Pairing. This change highlights the importance of establishing a relationship between HCX source and destination site peers prior to composing and deploying HCX services through the Multi-Site Service Mesh.

  • The legacy HCX Components Interconnect interface is deprecated in this release, and you can no longer install HCX components through the interface. You can use the interface to remove HCX services and to migrate from the legacy Interconnect to the supported Multi-Site Service Mesh Interconnect.  For detailed migration procedures, see the HCX User Guide.

  • Support is added for the Enterprise Administrator role. You add users in this role through the vSphere Role Mapping tab in the HCX appliance management interface.

• HCX Supportability Enhancements
  This release includes several name resolution commands that are useful for troubleshooting HCX issues: nslookup, dig, and host. These commands are added to the command line interface of the HCX Managers and the HCX Interconnect appliances (HCX-IX and HCX-NET-EXT).

Key Issues

• Resolved Multi-Site Service Mesh Upgrade Issues
  PR/2447284 - Resolved an issue preventing the HCX Interconnect appliances (HCX-IX and HCX-NET-EXT) from being upgraded with the error “Unable to proceed. Reason: Operation not allowed as appliance has ongoing migrations” shortly after having canceled ongoing migrations and confirming there are no active migrations or DR protections.
   
• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  PR/2302623 - Resolved an issue preventing the HCX Interconnect appliances (HCX-IX and HCX-NET-EXT) from being automatically added to the NSX Distributed Firewall exclusion list upon installation.
   
• Resolved HCX Central CLI Issues
  PR/2302623 - Resolved an issue preventing the Central CLI command perftest from running diagnostic tests.
   
• Resolved HCX Connectivity Issues
  PR/2479162 - Resolved an issue preventing the HCX Proxy configuration, if present, to be enforced.

 

HCX R131 - Released November 29th, 2019

VMware HCX R131 Release Notes | 29 Nov 2019 | Build 15192391 (Enterprise), Build 15192347(Cloud)

New Features

• Support for MTU configuration in the VMware Cloud on AWS​​
  This release includes support for the [email protected] account in the VMware Cloud on AWS to edit the HCX Network Profile MTU settings in support of scenarios where the underlying infrastructure also is capable of handling MTU larger than 1500 bytes.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  PR/2462668 - Resolved an issue where a local vMotion of an HCX Network Extension appliance causes service tunnels and stretched network disruption until the vMotion completes.
   
• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Deployment Issues
  PR/2464874 - Resolved an issue that prevented the deployment of Multi-Site Service Mesh with error "Remote compute profile(s) are not valid" when no Network Extension service is selected in the compute profile.

 

HCX R130 - Released November 17th, 2019

VMware HCX R130 Release Notes | 17 Nov 2019 | Build 15110008 (Enterprise), Build 15109993 (Cloud)

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements​​
  With this update, HCX supports migration of virtual machines running Windows 2012, Window 2012R2, or Window 2016 on Hyper-V hypervisors. ​This update also adds support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (32-bit) on KVM hypervisors.

  This update adds a button in the Sentinel Management UI for deleting HCX Sentinel agent software from source virtual machines.
  
  With this update, you can cancel in-progress migrations from the Migration UI.

• Support for Extended Networks from a Source DLR
  This release adds limited support for networks extended from an NSX-v DLR on the source side to an NSX-V DLR virtual wire with a transport zone comprised of multiple vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS). The support is limited to network extension without proximity routing and without universal wires. Adding a vDS to the target transport zone after the network extension is not supported, and must done prior to extending.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Migration Issues
  PR/2389456 - Resolved an issue where bulk migrations fail with error "Failed to create the replica placeholder disk(s) at the target site. JSONObject[\"esxIp\"] not found."
   
• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh UI Issues
  PR/2443350 - Resolved an issue causing edit operations to fail when editing service and deployment resources within an existing Compute Profile.

 

HCX R129 - Released November 1st, 2019

VMware HCX R129 Release Notes | 01 Nov 2019 | Build 14984208 (Enterprise), Build 14984205 (Cloud)

New Features

• GA Support for Replication Assisted vMotion
  ​This update releases Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV) for general availability (GA). RAV combines the benefits of HCX Bulk Migration with HCX vMotion to provide large-scale, parallel migrations with zero downtime. Support is provided for source sites running vSphere 5.1 and above, and destination sites running vSphere 6.0 and above. For more information, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."

• OS Assisted Migration Enhancements
  With this update, HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit) and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (64-bit) for KVM hypervisors. For a detailed list of OSAM requirements, see "Migrating Virtual Machines with VMware HCX."
  
  Additionally, users can override memory and vCPU of a migrated VM when using extended options for OS Assisted Migration.

• Improvements to the HCX Module for PowerCLI
  The VMware PowerCLI 11.5.0 release is now GA with an update to HCX cmdlets. Support for RAV and OSAM migration types is included with this release.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issue​s
  PR/2462668 - Resolved an issue where a local vMotion of an HCX Network Extension appliance causes service tunnels and stretched network disruption until the vMotion completes.
   
• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Deployment Issues
  PR/2464874 - Resolved an issue that prevented the deployment of Multi-Site Service Mesh with error "Remote compute profile(s) are not valid" when no Network Extension service is selected in the compute profile.

 

HCX R128 - Released October 20th, 2019

VMware HCX R128 Release Notes | 20 Oct 2019 | Build 14909006 (Enterprise), Build 14909007 (Cloud)

New Features

• Ports and Protocols Tool
  ​The VMware Ports and Protocols tool enables you to view port information for a variety and combination of VMware products on a single dashboard. You can also export selected data from the tool for offline accessibility. This tool replaces information in the HCX User's Guide section "Network Port and Protocol Requirements."
  
  The tool is available on https://ports.vmware.com/

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Manager Issues
  PR/2435097 - Resolved an issue resulting in high CPU usage by the HCX Manager when a large number of inventory updates are generated by the Virtual Center Server.
   
• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  PR/2302623 - Resolved an issue preventing the HCX Network Extension appliance to be automatically added to the NSX Distributed Firewall exclusion list upon installation.

 

HCX R127 - Released October 2nd, 2019

VMware HCX R127 Release Notes | 02 Oct 2019 | Build 14750136 (Enterprise), Build 14750120 (Cloud)

New Features

• OS Assisted Migration​: Support for Windows Server 2016
  This release adds support for the migration of virtual machines running Windows Server 2016 in an OpenStack / KVM environment. For a complete list of supported guest VM operating systems, see the VMware HCX User Guide.
   
• Updates to HCX diagnostics commands
  The commands start capture, stop capture, and show capture have been added to the HCX Central CLI.  These new commands can be used to capture traffic on the interfaces of the HCX appliances directly from the HCX Manager. 
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Issues with VMware vRealize Operations
  PR/2425613 - Resolved an issue that caused HCX operations to fail with error "unable to create new native thread" when using the HCX Management Pack for vRealize Operations.

 

HCX R126 - Released September 13th, 2019 (Deferred)

VMware HCX R126 Release Notes | 13 SEP 2019 | Build 14644690 (Enterprise), Build 14644689 (Cloud)

New Features

• Support for Extending Networks Using a Universal DLR
  This release includes universal wire support for extending networks by specifying a Universal DLR as the gateway router at the destination.
   
• OS Assisted Migration
  Support for RHEL 6.x and CentOS 6.x (32 bit) - This release supports migration of non-vSphere virtual machines running 32-bit versions of RHEL 6.x or CentOS 6.x.
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Migration Issues
  PR/2396984 - Resolved a problem where HCX migration validation fails for virtual machines placed inside a vSphere vApp with error "Service is not enabled, or interconnect is not deployed."

 

HCX R125 - Released August 30th, 2019

VMware HCX R125 Release Notes | 30 AUG 2019 | Build 14519436 (Enterprise), Build 14519437 (Cloud)

New Features

• GA Support for HCX with NSX-T at the Source
  This update includes GA support for HCX deployments with NSX-T at the source site, which is required to extend NSX-T provisioned virtual networks.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Dashboard Issues
  PR/2396923 - Resolved a problem that caused the data center geo location to be incorrectly positioned in the HCX system location map.

• Resolved HCX on vCloud Director Issue
  PR/2325293 - Resolved a problem where migrations fail if a Provider Virtual Data Center is made up of more than one cluster, each with its own vSphere Distributed Switch, and the transport zone used for HCX spans both vSphere Distributed Switches.

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Deployment Issues
  PR/2338719 - Resolved a problem where the HCX Network Extension installation fails with error "Could not find vNic attachments for mgmt ip."

 

HCX R124 - Released August 7th, 2019

VMware HCX R124 Release Notes | 07 AUG 2019 | Build 14339004 (Enterprise), Build 14339009 (Cloud)

New Features 

• HCX Enterprise Services Available with NSX Datacenter Enterprise+ Deployments

With this update, HCX Enterprise licenses are available for purchase to NSX Enterprise Plus customers. Access to the HCX Enterprise services requires an additional license.

This first delivery of HCX Enterprise is an add-on SKU available for customers using NSX Enterprise Plus. HCX Enterprise for VMC and for VCPP partners is planned for a future release.

             HCX Enterprise Features:

                         OS Assisted Migrations (OSAM)

This release provides general availability of OS Assisted Migration capability for migrating application workloads from an OpenStack/KVM environment into a vSphere environment. See User Guide for a list of supported guest VM Operating Systems.

                        Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV)

This new migration option combines the scalability benefits of bulk migration (parallelism, scheduling, resiliency) with the vMotion capability to migrate with no downtime.

                         Integration with Site Recovery Manager (HCX + SRM)

With the combined solution, DR backup and recovery can leverage the HCX hybrid interconnect to optimize bandwidth and connectivity, secure VMs in transit and stretch networks to simplify IP address management for recovered VMs. HCX accelerates replication processes by eliminating incompatibility issues across networks and storage.

• Updated HCX Mobility Services Platform

Improvements have been made to the way migration services are orchestrated internally and executed visually in the operator interface.  The HCX migration interface has been restructured, separating the Virtual Machine copy (Transfer and Placement), the final sequence (Switchover), and Extended Options as distinct components of the migration operation. The platform changes are building blocks for the OSAM and RAV migration options, and for upcoming capabilities. The HCX 3.5.1 installer on downloads.vmware.com has been incremented to version 3.5.2.

 

• New vRealize Operations Management Pack for HCX 

New HCX metrics added will be available with the HCX Management Pack for VROPS version 5.0.  It will be released in the VMware Solutions Exchange on 12 Aug 2019.

 

• Improvements to the HCX for SDDC to SDDC Mobility in the VMware Cloud on AWS (In Preview)
  
  With this release the HCX for SDDC to SDDC Mobility in the VMware Cloud on AWS is closer aligned to how HCX with NSX Enterprise Plus pair the source and target HCX Manager, in terms of firewall requirement.  Current users of this feature will have to configure firewall rules to direct communication between the source and target HCX Managers over TCP port 443 instead of any other IP address that they might have configured before.

 

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Interconnect Deployment Issues

PR/2280004 – Service Mesh deployment or resync failures will now be displayed in the HCX UI if some services fail to install or resync while others succeed. Previously, the entire operation would be displayed as successful.

 

PR/2368778 - Resolved a problem preventing HCX Interconnect appliances from being installed caused by the TLS version used by older versions of Virtual Center. This release supports Virtual Center 5.5 U3 and lower that use TLS version 1.2 and lower.

 

• Resolved HCX Migrations Issues

PR/2372790 - HCX now supports the migration of Virtual Machines running Virtual Hardware Version 15.

 

PR/2370691 - Resolved a problem causing bulk migrations to fail due to a virtual machine not powering off after a prior guest OS shutdown operation has timed out.

 

PR/2107791 - This release adds support to disable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on a per virtual machine basis. This can be found in the Extended Options section of the HCX migration user interface.

 

• Resolved HCX for SDDC to SDDC Mobility issues in the VMware Cloud on AWS (In Preview)

PR/2385859 - New installs of HCX using the SDDC to SDDC Mobility feature with NSX-T based SDDCs now automatically adds the required firewall rules at the source SDDC to allow outbound traffic for HCX Interconnects.

 

HCX R123 - Released July 23rd, 2019

VMware HCX R123 Release Notes | 23 JUL 2019 | Build 14222958 (Enterprise), Build 14222959 (Cloud)

New Features 

This release includes features intended for licensed access in a future release. These features are grayed out in the UI, and a message identifies those items that are currently unavailable.

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Migration User Interface Issues
  
  PR/2381572 - Resolved a problem causing slowed responsiveness in the HCX Migration user interface when the destination has a large number of datastores.
   
• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Issues
  
  PR/2379545 -Resolved a problem where syncing an existing Multi-Site Service Mesh does not propagate Interconnect changes to the compute profile.
   
• Resolved HCX Bulk Migration Issues
  
  PR/2368673 - Resolved a problem where large Virtual Machines do not failover after they have reached 99% of the migration process.
   
• Resolved Issues with HCX Support for Cisco Nexus 1000v
  
  PR/2361759 - Resolved a problem that prevented distributed port groups from being displayed on the HCX Network Profile interface in environments with Cisco Nexus 1000v Switches.
  
  PR/2381754 - Resolved a problem with HCX Interconnect Component deployments in environments with Cisco Nexus 1000v due to undefined Distributed Switches.
   
• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Deployment Issues
  
  PR/2386127 - Resolved a problem that prevented the deployment of Multi-Site Service Mesh in NSX-T based environments with error "A fleet network overlay TZ was not configured and the management network is not an NSX-T overlay network" when an ESXi host in the deployment cluster has multiple management vmknics.
   
• Resolved HCX Appliance Management Issues
  
  PR/2389565 - Resolved a problem where static routes where added without prefix length when configured using the HCX Manager appliance management UI.
   
• Resolved HCX Cloud Motion (Replication Assisted vMotion) Issues
  
  PR/2353889 - Resolved a problem where some virtual machines migrated using HCX Cloud Motion (Replication Assisted vMotion) could experience file system corruption.
   
• Resolved Issues with the PowerCLI Module for HCX
  
  PR/2386698 - Resolved a problem that prevents PowerCLI to retrieve the compute profile configuration from the target side HCX.
  
  PR/2387393 - Resolved a problem within the HCX Module causing the Get-HCXNetworkBacking cmdlet to fail.

 

HCX R122 - Released July 8th, 2019

VMware HCX R122 Release Notes | 08 JUL 2019 | Build 14104119 (Enterprise), Build 14104071 (Cloud)

 

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Interconnect Deployment Issues
  
  PR/2280004 – Service Mesh deployment or resync failures will now be displayed in the HCX UI, if some components fail to install or re-sync while others succeed. Previously the entire operation would be displayed as successful.
   
• Resolved HCX Cloud Motion (Replication Assisted vMotion) Issues
  
  PR/2300199 – Resolved an issue where replication is not disabled on a virtual machine after HCX Cloud Motion fails preventing future vMotion operations from happening.
   
• Resolved HCX Appliance Management Issues
  
  PR/2355093, PR/2363683 – Error message displayed when the Virtual Center or NSX Manager to HCX Manager pairing fails is updated to indicate the subsystem where the failure happens. The earlier error message only reported invalid credentials.
   
• Resolved Issues with Upgrades to the Multi-Site Service Mesh
  
  PR/2367132 – Resolved an issue where HCX appliances that were renamed by the HCX administrator were reverting to the default names after an update or a redeploy operation is resolved.
   

Security Issues

• Security Patches
  
  PR/2370529 - Patched HCX components to mitigate TCP Selected Acknowledgement vulnerabilities related to CVE-2019-11477, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11479

 

HCX R121 - Released June 25th, 2019

VMware HCX R121 Release Notes | 25 JUN 2019 | Build 14025900 (Enterprise), Build 14025901 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• GA Support for Brownfield Interconnect Conversion to the Multi-Site Service Mesh
  
  This release includes GA Support for Brownfield Interconnect to Multi-Site Service Mesh. This feature adds the ability to upgrade existing HCX Interconnect components to the new Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh.
   
• GA Support for HCX Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh
  
  The HCX Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh is now GA.  The old Interconnect, under the HCX Components view is now deprecated.
  Users are encouraged to discontinue using the deprecated interface for new configurations.
  Existing Interconnect configurations in the deprecated interface can be viewed, edited and converted to Multi-Site Service Mesh (the latter is strongly encouraged).
   

• Improvements to the HCX Module for PowerCLI
  
  VMware PowerCLI 11.3.0 is now GA with an update to HCX cmdlets. Support for the new HCX Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh and many other migration automation improvements are included with this release.
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Activation Issues
  
  PR/2341655 - Error messages are updated for clarity when the HCX activation fails due to a time skew between the HCX Manager and the Activation server.
   

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  
  PR/2354818 - Resolved a problem affecting Virtual Machine connectivity over an extended network configured with an MTU of 1500 or higher. This issue is applicable only to VMware Cloud on AWS version 1.7 with NSX-V or any environment using ESXi hosts version 6.7u2.
   

• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Lifecycle Issues
  
  PR/2287628 - Resolved a problem where HCX components were left stranded on the target side when the source side HCX Service Mesh is deleted and the target side is not reachable. A force delete option has been added to the Delete Service Mesh operation which will remove the HCX Service Mesh on both source and target.

• Resolved HCX Migration Interface Issues
  
  PR/2281774 - Resolved a problem causing Virtual Machines named with Japanese characters to not be rendered correctly, ultimately causing the migration of these Virtual Machines to fail.

  
  PR/2358783 - Resolved a problem causing slowed responsiveness in the HCX Migration Interface searches when more than 5000 Virtual Machines exist in the vSphere Inventory.  
  With this update, the migration wizard will display the first 500 records when using the search option. Operators can narrow the search results (and improve responsiveness) by selecting a vSphere Inventory container such as a cluster or a folder, or by right-clicking the Virtual Machine and using Hybridity Actions in the context menu.      

• Resolved HCX Interconnect Component HA Issues
  
  PR/2368106 – Resolved a problem when using HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh if a Network Extension appliance is power-cycled or the ESXi host where the HCX Network Extension lives experiences a failure and it is vSphere Availability enabled, the virtual machines on an extended network lose network connectivity.

 

HCX R120 - Released June 3rd, 2019

VMware HCX R120 Release Notes | 02 JUN 2019 | Build 13901995 (Enterprise), Build 13901994 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX Standalone Operator Interface
  
  With this release, the HCX operator interface can be launched in a browser, outside of the vSphere Client. This allows UI driven operations in source environments older than vSphere 5.5.1, where the HCX plugin is not supported.  
   

• HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Improvements

  • Multi-Site Service Mesh Diagnostics
    
    The ability to trigger on-demand diagnostics has been added to the Multi-Site Services Mesh. With this initial release, probes will test for required Network Ports within the environment and between the Service Mesh appliances.  
     
  • Multi-Site Service Mesh Support for vSphere Datacenter Objects in Compute Profiles
    
    vSphere Datacenter inventory objects can be selected when creating a Compute Profile.  Selecting a Datacenter will include all clusters within the object as a Service Profile in the Compute Profile.
     

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Issues
  
  PR/2344602 - If a Service Mesh deployment fails due to a problem with the underlying datastore, the errors in vCenter Server are now presented in HCX.  Previously difficult to diagnose stack traces were displayed.
  
  PR/2344571 - Fixed a problem causing Compute Profile edit operations to fail when there is high number of service clusters.             
  
   
• Resolved Issues with Upgrades to the Multi-Site Service Mesh
  
  PR/2343426 - Fixed a problem causing upgrades to Multi-Site Service Mesh to fail when the Interconnect configuration includes comma-separated DNS servers.
  
   
• Resolved Issues with the PowerCLI Module for HCX
  
  PR2342986 - Resolved a problem within the HCX Module in R119 causing the Get-HCXMigration cmdlet to fail.

 

HCX R119 - Released May 10th, 2019

VMware HCX R119 Release Notes | 09 MAY 2019 | Build 13639598 (Enterprise), Build 13640031 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• GA Support for HCX with NSX-T at the Destination
  
  This update includes GA support for HCX deployments with NSX-T 2.4+ at the destination.  Support for NSX-T at the source site remains in preview.
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Interconnect Deployment Issues
  
  PR/2321249 - Fixed a problem that causes the HCX vMotion Proxy to not install correctly when the Interconnect service appliance is redeployed. 
  
  PR/2321821 - Interconnect deployment error messages displayed when missing the NSX Transport Zone are updated for clarity. 
  
  PR/2331632 - Fixed a problem that causes the Service Mesh Compute Profile creation UI to not display clusters if they are located in subfolders and not directly in the Datacenter folder. 

 

• Resolved HCX Interconnect Service Mesh UI Issues
  
  PR/2326392 - The Network Profile displays validation errors before the required data is entered.  Validation behavior has been corrected.

 

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  
  PR/2213374 - When a Network Extension operation fails, subsequent attempts fail due to orphaned objects from the first failed attempt. Created objects will now be removed if the Network Extension operation fails.

 

• Resolved HCX vMotion Issues 
  
  PR/2251116 - Fixed a problem that causes virtual machine files to transmit out of order resulting in HCX vMotion failures with the error "failed to send VCC_COMPLETE”.

 

HCX R118 - Released May 2nd, 2019

VMware HCX R118 Release Notes | 01 MAY 2019 | Build 13553035 (Enterprise), Build 13553049 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX with NSX-T in Enterprise Deployments (In Preview)
  
  This update includes preview support for HCX with supports NSX-T 2.4+ at the source, destination or both environments.  HCX can now be used to extend NSX-T Logical Networks and to migrate virtual machines to and from NSX-T Logical Networks.
   
• HCX for SDDC to SDDC Mobility in the VMware Cloud on AWS (In Preview) 
  
  The Preview feature of SDDC to SDDC Mobility in VMC has been extended to include source NSX-T based SDDCs.
   
• HCX Interoperability with vCloud Director 9.7
  
  As of this update HCX is certified to interoperate with destination environments integrated with vCloud Director 9.7. The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix is updated to reflect this addition.

​

Key Issues

• HCX Interconnect Deployment Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2329080 - Fixed a problem causing the HCX Internal IP Address pools to become exhausted when deploying multiple Service Mesh Interconnects.
  
  PR/2331097 - A Global Transport Zone must be present in the NSX configuration for HCX Interconnect Deployments with source environments connected to Secondary NSX Managers. A Universal Transport Zone can be present, but will not be used.
  
  PR/2335715 - Fixed a problem causing the Interconnect path to become disrupted when the WAN Optimization service is added to a service mesh. If users have deployed HCX Interconnect Service Mesh without WAN Optimization service prior to update 118, the update is mandatory prior to adding the WAN Optimization service.
   
• HCX Interconnect Deployment Known Issues
  
  PR/2331632 - The Service Mesh Compute Profile creation UI does not display clusters if they are located in subfolders and not directly in the Datacenter folder.  As a workaround, move the clusters into the datacenter folder. 
   

• HCX Network Extension Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2198392 - Extending networks with prefixes larger than the /22 allowed in VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs results in a failure with stale configuration objects. Subsequent extension attempts fail, even if the prefix range is valid in the subsequent attempt. 
  
  PR/2328314 - Fixed a problem causing the Extension data path to become disrupted when a NSX LDR network is unextended in LDR to LDR Network Extension topologies. 
   

• HCX vMotion Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2326518 - Fixed a problem causing HCX vMotion failure when the destination virtual machine network is an NSX-T segment. 
   

• HCX Bulk Migration Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2328577 - Fixed a problem causing HCX Bulk Migration subtasks to fail when the source virtual machine has disk extensions with either VMDK (all caps) or other disk file extension names.
  
  PR/2332949 - Fixed a problem causing HCX Bulk Migration subtasks to fail when a virtual machines has more than 10 disks and conflicts with to the replica disk naming conventions.  
   

• HCX Disaster Recovery Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2332173 - Fixed a problem introduced in a recent update causing virtual machine protection operations with a seed file to fail.

 

HCX R117 - Released April 14th, 2019

VMware HCX R117 Release Notes | 12 APR 2019 | Build 13309163 (Enterprise), Build 13308964 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• Brownfield Interconnect Conversion to the Multi Site Service Mesh (experimental).

  This release adds the ability to upgrade existing HCX Interconnect components to the new Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh.  Prior to this release, the HCX Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh was only available for greenfield HCX installations. The multi-site service mesh feature is described in the R113 release notes.
  
  Caveats

  • Converting HCX Interconnect Components to Multi-Site Service Mesh is not a reversible operation.
  • HCX Interconnect services like migration and extension will be unavailable during the upgrade. The conversion should be performed during a maintenance window.
  • This release provides a functionality to convert HCX interconnect components into HCX Multi-site Service mesh. During this process, tunnel status shown in UI may continue to reflect "down". This will not impact actual data path connectivity over Network Extension, however user may not be able to trigger new migrations. To overcome this issue, we recommend to redeploy the appliances after the conversion.
     

• HCX Support for Virtual Machine Storage Policies

  HCX displays storage policies during the HCX Migration and DR operations. Storage Policy compliant Datastores will be displayed.
  
  Caveats

  • Storage Policies are not supported with HCX Cold Migration.
  • Encryption based storage policies are not supported.
  • HCX Disaster Recovery does not support selection of Storage Policies during Virtual Machine Test Recovery or Recovery.
     
• HCX Support for Virtual Machine Storage Policies
  
  HCX displays storage policies during the HCX Migration and DR operations. Storage Policy compliant Datastores will be displayed.
   

Key Issues

• HCX Network Extension Resolved Issues

  PR/2299631 - Fixed a problem preventing HCX Network Extension of Cisco Nexus 1000v based networks when the HCX system has been upgraded to HCX R115.
   

• HCX Network Extension with Proximity Routing

  PR/2320381 - Proximity Routing route injection fails to insert routes after Virtual Machine migration in vCloud Director destination environments.
   

• HCX Disaster Recovery Resolved Issues

  PR/2168132 - Virtual Machine Protection configuration fails when the Virtual Machine has been previously protected. 
   

• HCX Diagnostics Resolved Issues

  PR/2286463 - Downloading HCX Tech-Support files from the HTML5 vCenter Server HCX Plugin incorrectly creates the file using an erroneous format.
   

• HCX Cold Migration Resolved Issues

  PR/2307369 - The HCX Cold migration protocol has been updated to improve rollback data handling upon the accidental deletion of the destination folder selected for the migration. 
  As of this release, the Virtual Machine data is kept in the HCX vMotion Proxy host.  The administrator can manually migrate it to the target ESXi host. Prior to this release, the relocation timing and folder removal could result in data loss.
   

• HCX Appliance Management

  PR/2231658 - The HCX proxy configuration interface has been updated to accept proxy exceptions entries in CIDR notation.
   

• HCX Bulk Migration Resolved Issues

  PR/2312559 - The HCX migration wizard UI does not list the destination folder objects if the target vCenter has more than 1 datacenter.

  PR/2310396 - The HCX migration wizard UI does not show the network mapping option when the source side network is on an imported vSphere Distributed Switch.
   

Security Issues
 

• Security Patches
  
  PR/2321160 - The Apache httpd package is updated to version 2.4.39.

 

HCX R116 - Released March 18th, 2019

VMware HCX R116 Release Notes | 16 MAR 2019 | Build 12838871 (Enterprise), Build 12838864 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• Brownfield Interconnect Conversion to the Multi Site Service Mesh (experimental).
  
  This release adds the ability to upgrade existing HCX Interconnect components to the new Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh.  Prior to this release, the HCX Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh was only available for greenfield HCX installations.  The multi-site service mesh feature is described in the R113 release notes.
  
  Caveats:

  • ​​​Converting HCX Interconnect Components to Multi-Site Service Mesh is not a reversible operation.

  • HCX Interconnect services like migration and extension will be unavailable during the upgrade.  The conversion should be performed during a maintenance window.
     

• HCX Guest Customization Support for Windows SID Changes, and Executing Guest Customization Scripts 
  
  The HCX Guest Customization now allows the Windows SID to be set, and can apply guest customization scripts during the HCX Bulk Migration operation to Windows and Linux servers.  

 

Key Issues

• HCX vMotion with vSphere Replication (Replication Assisted vMotion) Resolved Issues

  PR/2300199 - HCX does not disable the replication on the source ESXi server after a Replication Assisted vMotion.  Preventing subsequent RAV operations for the same virtual machine.

  PR/2301879 - Enabling the RAV replication fails when there is intermittent ESXi host connectivity on the remote side.

  PR/2299340 - The RAV migration fails if the switchover phase overlaps with the sync operations of another RAV migration.

  PR/2295331 - During a RAV operation, the virtual machine disk creation step fails when there are issues accessing the underlying storage.

 

• HCX Enterprise Plugin Resolved Issues

  PR/2298428 - Fixed a problem causing the HCX user interface to show blank pages on both the vSphere Web Client and new HTML5 based vSphere Client.

 

• HCX Migration Resolved Issues

  PR/2295198 - Failed HCX Bulk migration operations left orphaned data in the destination vCenter Server inventory if the virtual machine power-on step failed.

  PR/2202277 - HCX vMotion migrations fail in vCloud Director based HCX environments if the Provider vDC is configured to use an NSX Transport Zone that is shared across two vSphere Distributed Switches.

• HCX Mobility Agent Resolved Issues

  PR/2291922 - Fixed a problem that causes MA to crash and restart when it receives the "add standard network" request.

 

• HCX Appliance Management Resolved Issues

  PR/2209535 – HCX proxy setting updates require the HCX Interconnect appliances to be redeployed.  With this fix, proxy setting updates are automatically pushed to the Interconnect appliances without requiring a redeploy.

 

HCX R115 - Released March 4th, 2019

VMware HCX R115 Release Notes | 02 MAR 2019 | Build 12573002 (Enterprise), Build 12572801 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• ​HCX Proximity Routing with NSX Distributed Logical Routers and NSX Edge Clusters.
  
  This release includes the ability to connect the Proximity Routed Network Extension configuration to an NSX Distribute Logical Router that transits through an NSX Edge Cluster.

 

Key Issues

• HCX Migration Inventory Resolved Issues 

  PR/2267793 -  Fixed a problem that causes the migration wizard to display duplicate objects in Single vCenter Server HCX deployments.
   

• HCX Network Extension Resolved Issues

  PR/2112982 – Parallel HCX Network Extension operations may fail. This release corrects the problem, allowing up to 8 parallel network operations per Network Extension appliance.

  PR/2106853 - The Network Extension operation will remain in the tearing down state when the remote site is deleted or deactivated. This update validates the state of the remote site before the operation is triggered.

  PR/2274992 - A Network Extension with Proximity Routing operation fails when the source Distributed Port Group on a Cisco Nexus 1000v.  

  PR/2298549 - Fixed a problem affecting Virtual Machine connectivity over the Network Extension path in vCloud Director based HCX Service Mesh configurations.
   

• HCX vMotion with vSphere Replication Resolved Issues

  PR/2267298 - When Replication assisted HCX vMotion migrations fail, the destination datastore retained orphaned folders and data.
   

• HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh Resolved Issues

  PR/2286287 - HCX transport tunnels are not re-established when the HCX Service-Mesh interface at destination site is used to trigger an interconnect appliance re-deploy. 

 

HCX R114 - Released February 8th, 2019

VMware HCX R114 Release Notes | 08 FEB 2019 | Build 12228840 (Enterprise), Build 12228816 (Cloud)
 

New Features 
 

• HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh

  This release includes preview access to the HCX Interconnect Multisite Service Mesh in the VMware Cloud on AWS. The feature is described in the R113 release note.

• HCX for SDDC to SDDC Mobility in the VMware Cloud on AWS (In Preview) 

  This release includes preview access to the HCX for SDDC to SDDC in VMC.  With this preview feature, one can establish multi-site service mesh from NSX-v based VMC SDDCs to NSX-T based VMC SDDC.  Multi-site service mesh will enable accelerated virtual machine mobility and network extension services between VMC SDDCs.   HCX for SDDC to SDDC is in preview for VMware Cloud on AWS customers, and has the following requirements:

  • The SDDCs must be upgraded to VMware HCX R114 or later.

  • The feature is enabled on the SDDC that will be the HCX source. 

  • In a NSX-V SDDC to NSX-T SDDC “NSX V-to-T” migration, the NSX-V backed SDDC will be the HCX source site. The HCX plugin will be displayed at the HCX source site.

  • Contact VMware Support to enable this feature. 

• HCX Migrations 

  HCX now supports the migration of Virtual Machines running Virtual Hardware Version 14 (added with vSphere 6.7).
   

• Provisioning HCX with the VMware Cloud on AWS

  The provisioning engine for HCX in VMware Cloud on AWS now uses geo location accelerated downloads (powered by Akamai) to improve the efficiency when downloading HCX to new VMC SDDCs.
   

Key Issues

• HCX with the VMware Cloud on AWS – Resolved Issues

  PR/2252823 – Migrations fail when using PowerCLI HCX module to migrate a Virtual Machine to an extended network on an NSX-T backed VMC SDDC.

  PR/2263996 -  Networks defined for HCX over Private Virtual Interfaces on NSX-T backed VMC SDDCs were not advertised out of VMC when they were part of a larger existing CIDR block.  These networks are now explicitly advertised.
   

• HCX Enterprise Plugin Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2002884 -  The HCX plugin does not download or display on a vCenter Server 5.5 U3a system because of no matching ciphers.  All ciphers are enabled to prevent this condition.  Strong ciphers are enabled for vCenter Server 6.5 and above. 
   

• HCX Lifecycle Resolved Issues

  PR/2203318 - The HCX System Updates interface displays older published builds, but does not allow Download or Upgrade operations to be initiated.  The upgrade option on older published releases is now grayed out.
   

• HCX Interconnect Deployment Resolved Issues

  PR/2136269 – The HCX Interconnect Deployment 
   

• HCX Site Pairing Resolved Issues

  PR/2275061 – Under rare conditions on HCX systems running Release 113, the Site Pairing configurations are not displayed and cannot be managed.
   

• HCX Proximity Routing Resolved Issues

  PR/2202502 – In HCX Proximity Routing deployments with both NSX Distributed Logical Router and NSX Edge Services Gateway, when the next sequentially available interface is not used for the DLR to ESG transit segment, the HCX Proximity Routing host route injection does not function correctly.
   

Security Issues
 

• Security Patches
  
  PR/2275297 – The Oracle (Sun) JRE package is updated to version 1.8.0_201.

 

HCX R113 - Released January 21st, 2019

VMware HCX R113 Release Notes | 21 JAN 2019 | Build 11921388 (Enterprise), Build 11921386 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX Interconnect Multisite Service Mesh (Experimental)

  This release includes experimental access to the new Interconnect Multi-Site Service Mesh. The new interconnect provides various serviceability and usability enhancements: 

  • A unified view is presented for the selected source and destination HCX sites. 
  • Interconnect uplinks, management and vMotion networks can be defined once, then consumed on-demand as the site to site topologies change. 
  • Datastores can be combined into consumption pools to better support large scale Interconnect deployments.
  • Enhanced Service Mesh scale out enables Interconnect components to be deployed per cluster.
  • Designed to allow modular addition of upcoming Cloud to Cloud services.
  • New parallel execution model accelerates Interconnect deployments, reducing component deployment time across the connected sites.  
  • New lockless model ensures parallel configuration during network stretch operations.
  • Required firewall rules are displayed graphically in the unified view to ease configuration activity.
    
    Recommendations: 
    The Multisite Service Mesh should be enabled only in non-production deployments while the feature is experimental. 
    
    Caveats: 
    Existing HCX Interconnect components are not compatible with the Multisite Service Mesh. Converting existing HCX Interconnect components into HCX Multisite Service Mesh components is not available while the feature is experimental.
     
• ​HCX Guest Customization for Bulk Migrations

  HCX now includes Windows and Linux guest customization as part of HCX Bulk migration.  The following virtual machine settings can be set during the bulk migration operation:

  • Virtual machine's hostname.  
  • Virtual machine vNIC IP address, Network Mask, Gateway and DNS Server.
    
    ​
• Updates to HCX Diagnostics Tools
  
  The command perftest all has been added to the HCX Central CLI.  This new command uses the HCX Interconnect performance tools to run all perftest diagnostic commands as a single operation. Specifically, it executes perftest uplink , perftest ipsec and perftest site, pertest wanopt (if Wan Optimization is enabled) and measures the transport level latency per link.  
  
   
• Improvements for vCloud Director-based HCX Installations

  HCX interoperability with vCloud Director has been re-worked to reduce requirements and configuration effort.  Notably the following changes have been made:

  • vCloud Director Load Balancer is no longer mandatory for HCX installations.
  • RabbitMQ/AMQP configuration is simplified (HCX will discover the existing configurations. 
  • HCX Administrators are notified when the RabbitMQ/AMQP connection is not established.
  • vCloud Director 9.5.0.1 is now supported.

 

Key Issues

• HCX Lifecycle Resolved Issues

  PR/2241296 - Creating or redeploying HCX appliances with special characters prevents the Interconnect service tunnels from being established.
   

• HCX Interconnect Deployment Resolved Issues

  PR/2261600 - In environments with multiple clusters, where some are not configured using the "NSX Host Preparation" process, the HCX Interconnect deployment results in errors because the unprepared cluster is selected.  
   

• HCX Appliance Management Resolved Issues

  PR/2136799 - The Import Trusted CA Certificates via URL operation does not honor the configured proxy settings and is not able to connect to the remote HCX URL and import the certificate. 
   

• HCX Migration Resolved Issues

  PR/2222701 - HCX vMotion and Cold migrations fail when HCX vMotion Proxy host security polices and the source ESXi security policies are mismatched.

  PR/2271551 HCX Migration validation throws an error when the remote network chosen for the migrated VM is spanning multiple dv-switches.
   

• HCX on vCloud Director Resolved Issues

  PR/2213364 - When HCX for vCloud Director is upgraded from R107 to R109, forward vMotion migrations fail and displays "Index: 0, Size: 0 error”.
   

• HCX Audit Log Resolved Issues

  PR/2238020 - The Audit Log interface has been updated to prevent the Audit Log Download operation when dates that don't contain audit logs are selected.  The Download button will gray out until valid dates are selected.  
   

Security Issues

• Security Patches

  PR/2248659 - The openssl package is updated to version 1.1.0j/1.0.2q.

  PR/2251969 - The apache httpd package is updated to version 2.4.37.

  PR/2248243 - The tomcat package is updated to version 8.5.35.

 

HCX R112 - Released December 6th, 2018

VMware HCX R112 Release Notes | 06 DEC 2018 | Build 11170120 (Enterprise), Build 11170124 (Cloud)

 

New Features 

• HCX Interoperability with vSphere Standard Switches
  
  The VMware HCX Interconnect VMs can now use a management interface connected to vSphere Standard Switches.  This enhances HCX interoperability with source environments that do not implement vSphere Distributed Switches and reduced retrofit requirements.

 

Key Issues

• HCX and vSphere Communications Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2242900 - VMware HCX is not able to communicate with the registered vCenter Server when it is configured to use TLS 1.1.
  
  PR/2245964 - A problem which caused HCX migrations to intermittently fail in vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1 have been identified and are resolved.

 

• HCX Appliance Lifecycle Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2235115 - HCX Interconnect appliances fail to deploy or upgrade when there is a space in the name. 

 

• HCX Management Interface Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2107079 – In certain conditions, the HCX appliance management interface may display a duplicate IP address for the Single Sign-On that cannot be removed by the user.

 

• HCX Interconnect Deployment Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2231537 - During HCX Interconnect deployment operations, a failure to deploy the virtual machine results in an orphaned appliance in the HCX interface.
   
• PR/2090091 – HCX Interconnect deployments may fail when the target vSphere environment has multiple NSX Transport Zones.
   
• HCX Migration Resolved Issues 
  
  PR/2213106 - Reverse HCX vMotion migration fails when there is an ISO image attached.  The failure occurs with the Unmount ISO Image migration option selected.
   
• HCX on vCloud Director Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2219071 - Extending networks to vCloud Director targets using NSX Edge trunk sub-interface fails when the target vCloud Director version is 9.0 and later.
  
  PR/2208406 - HCX operations fail due to incompatible API versions used on vCloud Director 9.5 and later.  HCX is updated to interoperate with API changes dynamically.   
  
  PR/2218216 - The HCX interface at the target site incorrectly displays the Disaster Recovery Protect Virtual Machines operation on vCloud Director based deployments.  The Protect Virtual Machines operation should only be displayed in the HCX interface at the source site.

 

HCX R111 - Released November 10th, 2018

VMware HCX R111 Release Notes | 10 NOV 2018 | Build 10808514 (Enterprise), Build 10808470 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• Ability to reschedule HCX Bulk Migrations
  
  With this release, HCX Administrators will be able to modify the fail-over date and time of previously scheduled bulk migrations as long as the initial sync task has not concluded.
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Lifecycle Issues
  
  PR/2192727 - Importing a Router in the HCX Cloud portal does not show available NSX gateways when the NSX manager is not able to communicate with the HCX Manager.

• Resolved HCX Interconnect Component HA Issues
  
  PR/2104863 - HCX Interconnect appliances do not fail-over after an HA event.

• HCX with the VMware Cloud on AWS - Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2024329 - The SDDC name is not displayed correctly in the HCX plug-in UI. For newly created SDDCs, the HCX remote site will display the SDDC Name.
  
  PR/2230921 - Unstretching a network with the Connect cloud network to cloud edge gateway after unstretching option would fail to connect the network when using NSX-T on VMware Cloud on AWS.
  
  PR/2218944 - Replication Assisted vMotion (Cloud Motion) fails when the source datastore is VMFS6.  

Security Issues
 

• Security Patches
  
  PR/2218832 - The Oracle (Sun) JRE package is updated to version 1.8.0_191.
  
   

HCX R110 - Released October 21st, 2018

VMware HCX R110 Release Notes | 21 OCT 2018 | Build 10540761 (Enterprise), Build 10540686 (Cloud)
 

Key Issues

• HCX Disaster Recovery Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2202800 - The HCX Protect VMs operation is not configurable with a virtual machine selected as the seed if the virtual machine was previously migrated with HCX. 
  
  PR/2217821 - Attaching a virtual machine to a network as part of the Disaster Recovery workflow fails causing the virtual machine to have no network backing.
   
• HCX with the VMware Cloud on AWS
  
  PR/2208378 - HCX does not support M5 P1 VMC builds using NSX-T.
  
  PR/2212464, PR/2215870 - Forward vMotion fails when using VMware Cloud on AWS version M5 P1.
  
  PR/2218435 - Error is displayed when adding the DX private VIF in the HCX Interconnect Configuration.
  
  PR/2218880 - Bulk migration fails to migrate virtual machine with error "Failed to instantiate the virtual machine at the target site. Could not resolve segment".
  
  PR/2219148 - HCX Network Extension fails when NSX-T L2VPN segments are present in the target side VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.
   
• Known Issues
  
  PR/2222470 - Trusted CA Certificates may show up as expired in the appliance management console after HCX installation. These are internal certificates and should not be tampered with. No further action is required.
   

 

HCX R109 - Released October 10th, 2018

VMware HCX R109 Release Notes | 10 OCT 2018 | Build 10391659 (Enterprise), Build 10391598 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX Reverse vMotion Migration on NSX-T based SDDCs 
  
  HCX Reverse vMotion Migration is now supported with VMware Cloud on AWS NSX-T based SDDCs.
   
• HCX Interconnect With AWS Direct Connect Private Virtual Interface (VIF) on NSX-T based SDDCs
  
  HCX now supports using AWS Direct Connect Private Virtual Interface with HCX services.  The HCX Uplink networks can be defined to Private VIF advertised networks in the HCX Interconnect Configuration interface.
   
•  HCX Key Based Authentication for Backups
   
  HCX SFTP backups can now be configured with public key based authentication.
   

Key Issues

• HCX Interconnect Supportability Resolved Issues

  PR/2210713 - HCX Interconnect Appliances have been tuned to produce improved error logging. 

  PR/2171196 - Errors displayed when generating tech support bundles are not cleared even after the issue is resolved.

• HCX Appliance Management Resolved Issues

  PR/2173826 - After logging out of the HCX Manager Appliance Management interfa ce, a 403 forbidden error is briefly displayed.

• HCX Network Extension Resolved Issues

  PR/2208317 - In cases where the HCX Network Extension service is used on NSX DLR with ESG based target sites, HCX was not handling the addition and removal of related network routes correctly.

  PR/2173074 - HCX Network Extension connectivity fails when extending VLAN backed port groups from a source HCX site that uses NSX DLR, to a destination site that uses NSX DLR. 

 

HCX R108 - Released September 23rd, 2018

VMware HCX R108 Release Notes | 23 SEP 2018 | Build 10206209 (Enterprise), Build 10206075 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX Support for vSphere Virtual Machine Tags
  
  vSphere Tags can be applied as metadata to vSphere Objects.  With this update, Tags applied to Virtual Machines at the source site will be retained when the Virtual Machine is migrated to a remote site with HCX. 

 

• HCX Service Administrator Notifications
  
  The VMware HCX Service Administrators are now able to provide notifications to client HCX Manager systems.   Inbound messages will be displayed as a banner in the HCX interface, color coded for severity Green, Blue, Orange, or Red, respectively for increased severity.  

 

• HCX Interconnect Appliance Management
  
  With this release, the HCX Interconnect Appliances will set their OS hostname to the Virtual Machine name.  The hostname will only change when the appliance is upgraded or anytime it is redeployed.  

 

• HCX Diagnostics Tools
  
  The command perftest uplink has been added to the HCX Central CLI.  This new command allows the HCX performance tools to run diagnostics using the Interconnect appliance Uplink interfaces. This new command measures the baseline throughput between Uplink interfaces. The test first determines if the remote Interconnect appliance is behind a NAT or not. If it is, perftest is initiated from the remote Interconnect appliance. If it is not behind a NAT, perftest is initiated from the local Interconnect appliance. The default port number for perftest uplink is 4500.
  
  The HCX Tech-Support Bundle now includes Upgrade logs.
   

Key Issues
 

• HCX Network Extension Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2198616 The HCX plugin notes that the Network Extension appliance can support 4094 extended networks.   HCX Network Extension will fail to extend more than four networks when targeting VMware on AWS NSX-T backed SDDCs.
  
  PR/2203391 The HCX Network Extension operations fail when the source network has spaces in the name.

 

• HCX Replication Assisted vMotion Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2192706 The vMotion Encryption type Required is erroneously changed to Opportunistic after an HCX Replication Assisted vMotion migration.

 

HCX R107 - Released September 13th, 2018

VMware HCX R107 Release Notes | 13 SEP 2018 | Build 10027070 (Enterprise), Build 10027066 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX For NSX-T Based VMC SDDCs 

  HCX is now supported with NSX-T based SDDCs in the VMware Cloud on AWS.

  The following limitations/caveats apply when using HCX on the NSX-T based SDDC platform:

  • Reverse HCX vMotion migrations are not supported.
  • Following a Network Extension operation, there is a five minute delay until the extended network is selectable in the migration wizard.
  • A maximum of four networks can be extended through a single HCX Network Extension appliance.
  • The SDDC firewall must be configured to allow inbound HTTPS (TCP-443) connections to the HCX Manager.
     

Key Issues

• HCX Central CLI Resolved Issues
  
  PR/2157842  The Central CLI's performance testing command perftest may fail and display an Internal Server Error.

 

HCX R106 - Released September 7th, 2018

VMware HCX R106 Release Notes | 07 SEP 2018 | Build 9943937 (Enterprise), Build 9943955 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX Plug-In 
  
  Added support for HTML5 vSphere Web Client. HCX plug-in now works with both the Flex based and HTML5 based vSphere Web Clients.
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX vMotion Issues
  
  PR/2189649 - vMotion migrations may fail with error "com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.fault.GenericVmConfigFault Error encountered while unstunning the virtual machine for Storage vMotion" when Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is enabled on a virtual machine. HCX vMotion disables CBT prior to initiating the migration, however, in some environments the vMotion may still fail. In addition to disabling CBT, HCX will now perform a Fast Suspend and Resume (FSR) prior to initiating vMotion operations on VMs where CBT is enabled.
  
  PR/2191426 - vMotion migrations fail when Encrypted vSphere vMotion is set to "required" on a virtual machine. HCX vMotion will set Encrypted vSphere vMotion to "opportunistic" prior to initiating vMotion operations and set it back to "required" after the vMotion succeeds. A notification message will be shown. HCX vMotion is encrypted.
  
  PR/2191438 - vMotion migrations fail when virtual machine's virtual hardware version is 8 or below. An error message will be provided stating that the virtual machine is running an unsupported virtual hardware version and the vMotion operation will not be initiated.
  
  PR/2191445 - vMotion migrations may fail when parallel vMotions are initiated. HCX will now process vMotions in a serial fashion (one at a time) and queue subsequent vMotions.

 

HCX R105 - Released August 20th, 2018

VMware HCX R105 Release Notes | 20 AUG 2018 | Build 9689240 (Enterprise), Build 9689167 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• HCX Management - Audit Log Enhancements
  
  FR/2167438 HCX Audit Logs now allow downloading the audit log to a file.  Filtering and sorting capabilities have been added to the Audit Log UI. 
   
• HCX Central CLI Enhancements
  
  FR/2180685 - The HCX Central CLI perftest namespace has been updated with new HCX WAN Optimization commands, allowing the user to query for current HCX Optimization performance.  
   

Key Issues

• Resolved HCX Network Extension Issues
  
  PR/2176984 - Unicast Flood Leak Avoidance - Under specific architectural conditions, Virtual Machine traffic within a local site will be sent as unknown unicast traffic to the remote site over the HCX Network Extension path.
   
• Resolved HCX Activation Issues
  
  PR/2167945 - An HCX environment activated with an NSX Data Center Enterprise Plus trial license cannot be upgraded to a full license. 
   
• Resolved HCX Appliance Management Issues 
  
  PR/2151702 - The HCX System Name changes in the Appliance Management interface are not propagating correctly to the HCX UI in the vSphere Web Client.
   
• Resolved HCX Lifecycle Issues
  
  PR/1928755 - The HCX Interface displays a list of available updates instead of showing only the most recent and recommended updates.
  PR/2111575 - The HCX Interface does not error when the hybridity-depot.vmware.com endpoint, which is required for updates, becomes unreachable.
  PR/2149655 - The HCX System Updates Interface does not display the correct version for the remote HCX system following an update to the remote system.
   
• Resolved HCX Migration Interface Issues
  
  PR/2151293 - The HCX Migration Interface does not display incomplete migration tasks older than 15 days.
   
• Resolved HCX Disaster Recovery Interface Issues
  
  PR/2173989 - The HCX UI incorrectly shows 'recovering' as the state when a replication is being removed, and also when initial full sync is underway.

 

HCX R104 - Released August 3rd, 2018

VMware HCX R104 Release Notes | 03 AUG 2018 | Build 9425504 (Enterprise), Build 9425502 (Cloud)
 

New Features 

• New vRealize Operations Management Pack for HCX
  
  This management pack helps monitor, provides dashboards & reports and triggers problem alerts for the HCX components and services. 
  https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-hybrid-cloud-extension-hcx-4-0#reviews
   

Key Issues

• HCX Network Extension
  
  PR/2126530 -  The HCX Network Unstretch operation fails to remove the stretch traffic filter.
  The Network Unstretch operation fails to remove the traffic filter that HCX configures when the "Connect cloud network to cloud edge gateway after un-stretching" option is selected.  This causes routing of Virtual Machine traffic routing on that network to become disrupted.
   
• HCX Bulk Migration 
  
  PR/2146222 - Reverse Bulk Migrations fail in VMware Cloud on AWS environments.
  If a rare set of conditions are present in VMware Cloud on AWS environments, HCX Bulk Reverse Migrations from VMware Cloud on AWS to on-premises datacenters may fail.
  
  PR/2172884 - DR Protection and Bulk Migration operations fail when destination is using vSAN storage
  Triggering DR Protection and Bulk Migration actions on virtual machine having more than 7 disks fails at dummy disk creation phase when destination site is having vSAN based datastores.