In vRealize Operations Cloud you can use VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) to perform application migration, workload rebalancing, and business continuity across data centers and clouds. You can also migrate workloads from on-premises data centers to VMware Cloud.
Earlier when you performed HCX bulk migration to migrate workloads from one datacenter to another datacenter, or from one datacenter to VMware Cloud. vRealize Operations Cloud failed to retain the historic metrics.
Now vRealize Operations Cloud has implemented a solution which is triggered during HCX migration. The event helps vRealize Operations Cloud to collect details and manage the target vCenter to identify the workload migration.
After mapping the right attributes of VMs in the source datacenter with the VMs in the destination datacenter, you can verify if vRealize Operations Cloud is able to retain all the historical metrics. The HCX migration types supported in vRealize Operations Cloud are:
- Bulk Migration
- vMotion Based Migration (hot & cold)
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Replication Assisted Migration
HCX vMotion
- Get the target VCI, VM-VC-MOID from event using the resource key.
- Get the source VCID, VM-VC-MOID from event using the resource key.
- Maps the correct target VCID, VM-VC-MOID to the source VM in vRealize Operations Cloud.
vMotion Generic Scenario
- Get the target VCI, VM-VC-MOID from event using the resource key.
- Detects the discovered target VM in vRealize Operations Cloud , based on the VCID, VM-VC-MOID attribute.
- For the detected target VMs, get VMs with VM Entity Instance UUID, and map the VCID, VM-VC-MOID for these VMs.
- Search VCID, VM-VC-MOID in the event message to find the actual vMotion VM.
- Set the correct target VCID, VM-VC-MOID to the right VM in on source vRealize Operations Cloud.
