HCX uses the Mobility Agent service to perform vMotion, Cold, and Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV) migrations.
The HCX-IX appliance adds the Mobility Agent service as a host object in the vCenter Server. The processor, memory, storage and networking resources displayed on this object does not represent actual consumption on the physical hypervisor hosting the IX appliance.
![vSphere Client screen with host object selected and summary host information.](images/GUID-AFAF6A49-329D-46B8-841D-8CCCD1294B74-low.png)
Caution:
The Mobility Agent host is required. Deleting this host can disrupt HCX Cold, vMotion, and Replication Assisted vMotion (RAV) migrations.