Before installing or deploying HCX, consider the required resources for both the source and destination environments.
Hardware Requirements for HCX Appliances
| Appliance |
vCPU |
Memory |
Disk Space/IOPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| HCX Manager |
4 |
12 GB |
60 GB |
| HCX-IX |
8 |
3 GB |
2 GB |
| HCX-NE |
8 |
3 GB |
2 GB |
| HCX-WAN-OPT |
8 |
14 GB |
100 GB / 5000 IOPS |
| HCX-SGW (source only) |
8 |
8 GB |
21 GB (disks: 2 GB, 6 GB, 4 GB, and 9 GB) |
| HCX-SDR (destination only) |
8 |
8 GB | 21 GB (disks: 2 GB, 6 GB, 4 GB, and 9 GB) |
Note: The storage requirement per appliance is doubled during the HCX upgrade and redeploy operations, as a second appliance is created for the duration of the operation.
Scaling the HCX Deployment
HCX Manager is deployed per vCenter Server.
The other HCX virtual appliances deploy per service mesh.
The network extension appliance (HCX-NE) has a one-to-one relationship to a distributed virtual switch (DVS).
