HCX Limitations for VMware Cloud Director with NSX-T

Some HCX services, features, and functions are not supported in deployments using VMware Cloud Director with NSX-T.

The following restrictions and limitations apply:

• Unsupported HCX Services:

  • Network Extension High Availability
  • Mobility Optimized Networking
  • OS Assisted Migration
  • Transport Analytics
  • HCX Disaster Recovery
  • PowerCLI Module for HCX in VMware Cloud Director with NSX-T deployments
• HCX installation limitations:
  • In Cloud Director environments backed by multiple vCenters, select only a single vCenter Server in the HCX Manager appliance configuration.
  • Creation of HCX Network Profile in HCX Cloud with a vSphere Standard Switch port group.
  • VMware Cloud Director installation in source-side deployments.
  • Selecting the system virtual data center (VDC) resource pool as a deployment container in Compute Profile.

    The resource pool gets created on the vSphere vCenter when the provider VDC is created in VMware Cloud Director. Do not select Org or system VDC resource pools in the Compute Profile setting.

  • When the vCenter Server is configured in HCX, it must be consistent with the Cloud Director vCenter Server configuration using either the FQDN or the IP address in both environments.

• Unsupported VMware Cloud Director configurations:

  • Auto Discovery feature of VMware Cloud Director for migrated VMs.
  • VMware Cloud Director External Networks backed by a Tier-0 router.
  • Shared organization networks spanning multiple Orgs for Network Profile network backings or for Network Extension.
  • VMware Cloud Director enabled with data center group networking backed by NSX.