Live AWS to On-Premises Migration Completed: Wave Planning, HCX Cutover, and VMware Avi Validation

In the first two parts, I described how I prepared the on-premise cluster and how I configured HCX for network extension. In this final post, I arrive at the core part of the project: the actual migration, the cutover, and the final validation. This is the phase where everything you built beforehand is put to … Read more

VMware HCX for AWS-to-On-Premises Migration: Step-by-Step Deploy, Site Pairing, and Network Extension

In the first part, I described how I prepared the on-premises cluster with NSX and VMware Avi. Now it’s time to discuss HCX the component that actually made the migration possible without service disruption. HCX achieves things that at first glance seem almost impossible: it moves VMs between completely disparate environments, extends networks between the … Read more

From AWS to On-Premises with VMware: Preparing a 5-Node Cluster

When I was asked to repatriate an environment running on AWS back to on-premises, the first thing I did was resist the temptation to jump straight into the migration. Before moving any workload, I dedicated time to designing the destination infrastructure. It’s a phase that tends to be underestimated, but it is precisely what determines … Read more

Rinnovo Certificato SSL vCenter Server

mi è capitato molte volte di imbattermi in dei vcenter che andassero in scadenza naturale del certificato e questo porta al disservizio dell’intera infrastruttura vcenter se non si ha a disposizone un backup file per ripristinarlo e ripartire (soprattutto se abbiamo configurato vDS o Resource Pool particolari o servizi dipendenti dal vCenter) possiamo tentare il … Read more