HOL-1981-01-HBD: Monitoring and Operations with HCX
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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.
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vROps for HCX
We are in the Dashboards section of vROps. Click on the HCX Enterprise Server
Hover over devices and click on the cloud gateway.
You can see the metrics update on the left side of the screen. Next, click on Network Extension
The widget in the bottom left, shows any open alerts. We can see that there are none associated with this Network Extension. Click on the next Network Extension to review.
Stretch Networks
Click on Stretch Networks on the left navigation to see the topology.
Click on the HCX Enterprise Server. You will see a pop up with key details and then the topology will refresh on the right side.
In the network topology area click on the top object which is the HCX Enterprise Server.
Next object is the site connection. Click on this object to view the summary.
The third highlighted object is the Distributed Port Group.
Using the left navigation click on Migrations.
The first section shows the completed migrations. Click in the scroll box to move to the right and see the rest of the available fields, including Start Time, End Time, Time Taken, Status and VM size.
The second section shows the current migrations including including percentage complete. Click in the scroll box to move down and see the last section, which shows the recent error migrations.
Using the left navigation click on Disaster Recovery.
The top widget shows Incoming Replications. Click on the scroll bar to view the extra fields.
The next area shows the Outgoing Replications. Click on the scroll bar to view the extra fields.
Click on the scroll bar on the right to view the last two widgets. These are Replications status’ and RPO violations.
HCX Disaster Recovery Replications
Using the navigation at the top of the screen, click on Environment.
On the left side navigation click on the arrow to expand the HCX services for VC Cloud sections.
Click on HCX Disaster Recovery Replications.
Click on HCX Cloud World.
click on d2p1v1mgmt-vc0 to expand it.
Click on the VM ESP-APP-TKT03 to see a summary.
Using the top navigation click on All Metrics.
On the top widget, click on the arrows on the right side to expand the Object Relationships.
On the bottom widget, click on the All Metrics to expand.
Next click on NFC In-Progress to expand.
Click on the scroll bar to slide down the list.
Click on Transmitted Throughput (MBps) to see the history of the throughput.
HCX Stretched Networks
Using the navigation, click the back button.
Using the left navigation menu click on HCX Stretched Networks.
Click the arrow next to 172.28.48.140 to expand it.
The right side of the top widget, click on the arrows to expand the Object Relationship.
Click on the top object, which is the cloud gateway.
At the bottom, click on All Metrics.
Click on Tunnel.
Click on the scroll bar to slide down.
Click on Max Observed Utilization (KBps).
Tracking Migrations with vROps
Start a Migration
Now we’ll walk through starting a migration and tracking them through vROps. Click on the second open tab, which is vCenter.
With the VM Workload 1 selected on the left side, click the Actions menu.
Click on Hybridity Actions
Click on Migrate to the Cloud
Click on Specifics Destination Folder.
Click on VMS migrated to cloud.
Click on Select Folder.
Click on Specify Destination Container.
Click on IOT-Cluster.
Click Select Destination.
Click on Select Storage.
Click on d2p1s0vnx0lu42.
Click on Select Destination Network.
Click on L2E_Application-Net-Vlan-157-157-5AC389930
Click on the scroll bar to slide down on the form.
Click on Next.
Click on Finish.
Check vROps for the Migration Status
Click on the vROps tab.
Click on Dashboards at the top.
Using the left navigation click on Migrations.
Using the built in navigation tools at the top of the page, click on the refresh icon.
Under Ongoing Migrations we now see the current migration. Click on it.
Click on the lower scroll bar to see the other available fields.
Click on the refresh button again.
You can now see the migration is at 48%.
Click on the refresh button again.
You can now see the migration doesn’t show up in ongoing migrations. Under Recent Completed Migrations, click on the scroll bar to scroll down and find the recently completed migrations.
Click on (forward) Workload 1 object.
Click on the lower scroll bar to move to the right and see more available fields.
Start a Bulk Migration
Click on the second tab to switch to the vCenter.
Click on the Migrations tab.
Click on Migrate Virtual Machines
Click on Specifics Destination Folder.
Click on VMS migrated to cloud.
Click on Select Folder.
Click on Specify Destination Container.
Click on IOT-Cluster.
Click Select Destination.
Click on Select Storage.
Click on d2p1s0vnx0lu42.
Click on the scroll bar to scroll down.
Click on the check box next to Workload 2.
Click on the scroll bar to scroll down.
Click on the check box next to Workload 3.
Click on Select Destination Network.
Click on L2E_Application-Net-Vlan-157-157-5AC389930
Click on Select Destination Network.
Click on L2E_Application-Net-Vlan-157-157-5AC389930
Click next.
Click Finish
Click on the refresh icon again and you will now see that the migration is in progress and at 11%.
Check vROps for the Bulk Migration Status
Click on the first tab to switch back to vROps.
Click on the refresh icon in the top navigation to show the current migrations.
Click on the scroll bar under Ongoing Migrations to scroll over and see more fields.
We can now see the current percent complete under progress.
Click refresh again and you can see the progress increase.
Click refresh again and you will see the migrations no longer show under Ongoing Migrations. The migrations are now complete.
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