I had a working HCX setup in my lab, and I was making some modifications to my setup and tried chopping off my interconnect networking configuration on the HCX Cloud side. Deletion of the interconnect configuration was failing for me with the below error

Let me first explain how I landed in this situation. 

I deleted the interconnect appliances from my on-prem to show a demo to my peers on how the interconnects are deployed via the HCX plugin in the vSphere webclient. During the demo, I did not notice that the site pairing between my on-prem HCX and cloud side HCX was broken (due to a vCenter upgrade on the cloud side, a cert mismatch issue occurred).

When I kicked the CGW appliance removal, the backing VM got deleted, and the appliance configuration disappeared from on-prem. But when I checked on the cloud side, the peer CGW appliance and the Mobility Agent host were still intact.… Read More

This is in continuation with my last post where I discussed about what is service mesh feature of HCX and how it works. In this post we will learn how to create service mesh.

As we discussed earlier that we need to have compute/network profiles created on both on-prem and cloud side.

The compute profile describes the infrastructure at the source and destination site and provides the placement details (Resource Pool, Datastore) where the virtual appliances should be placed during deployment and the networks to which they should connect.

Login to HCX cloud appliance using your vSphere credentials (https://HCX-FQDN) and navigate to Multi-Site Service Mesh tab and click on create compute profile. 

Create compute profile page gives you a fair idea on what a compute profile comprises of.

Provide a name for your profile and hit continue. 

Select the HCX services to be enabled. I selected all services in my case.… Read More

Recently I upgraded HCX appliances in my lab and saw a new tab named “Multi Site Services Mesh” appearing in both cloud side and enterprise side UI and was curious to know about this new feature.

What is HCX Multi Site Services Mesh?

As we know that in order to start consuming HCX, we need to have the interconnect appliances (CGW, L2C and WAN Opt) deployed in both on-prem and cloud side. Before starting the deployment of appliances, we should have the Interconnect configuration already in place in cloud side.

The Multi-Site Service Mesh enables the configuration, deployment, and serviceability of Interconnect virtual appliance pairs with ease. Now you have the choice to deploy/manage HCX services with the traditional Interconnect interface or with the new Multi-Site Service Mesh. To deploy the HCX IX’s you will choose either of the method. 

Before you plan to use HCX Multi-Site Service Mesh, let’s have a look at few benefits which we get out of this feature: 

• Uniformity: the same configuration patterns at the source and remote sites.

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