1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 Introduction to VMware HCX
- Describe workload mobility challenges that VMware HCX addresses
- Recognize use cases for VMware HCX
- Identify all major Cloud providers offering and supporting VMware
HCX
3 HCX Services and Deployment Types
- Describe the functions of VMware HCX components
- Recognize the services provided by VMware HCX
- Recognize when to use different deployment types for VMware HCX
- Be able to choose which components to install and configure for a
different VMware HCX service
4 HCX Deployment
- Identify the resource, network, and ESXi/VMware vCenter server
requirements for VMware HCX
- Understand the VMware vCenter user roles and access requirements
- Describe the installation workflow
- Install, activate, and configure VMware HCX manager
- Understand the compute and network profile requirements for VMware HCX and
its services
- Create site pair, compute, and network profiles
- Describe and manage the HCX Service Mesh
- Create and configure a HCX Service Mesh
5 Network Extension
- Describe network extension use case and benefits
- Compare the HCX-Network extension service with other solutions
- Examine Network Extension capabilities and topology
- Create a Network Extension
- Describe network traffic packet flow
- Describe Mobility Optimized Networking
- Enable Mobility Optimized Networking
- Describe the TCP Flow Conditioning and Application path resiliency feature
of VMware HCX
- Recognize the key benefits of TCP flow conditioning and Application path
resiliency
- Describe WAN optimization
6 Workload Mobility
- Describe different migration types
- Recognize the limitation of each migration method and consideration when
planning a migration
- Understand Bulk and Replication Assisted VMware HCX® vMotion® migration
methods
- Migrate a VM using Bulk migration
- Describe cold and vMotion migration method
- Migrate a VM using HCX vMotion migration
- Examine non VMware vSphere® workload migration
- Migrate a VM using an OS assisted migration method
7 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Examine disaster recovery concepts
- Describe disaster recovery networks
- Plan and create disaster recovery networks
- Describe VM protection operations
- Protect, recover, and test recovery and reverse replication of a VM
- Understand VMware HCX and SRM integration and value
8 HCX Lifecycle Management
- Backup and restore the VMware HCX manager
- Locate and access VMware HCX logs
- Troubleshoot VMware HCX
- Plan for VMware HCX manager and component updates
9 Customer Design Scenarios
- Design a VMware HCX deployment
- Choose workload mobility methods for the migration
- Discuss customer requirements and proposed design
- Discuss components, services, and migration methods for the
scenario