After VMware presented their NSX+ product at Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore, they talked about their new HCX+ product, which is a SaaS-based version of their HCX product.
With their HCX product, VMware is centered on enabling a seamless multi-cloud experience for their clients, making the simplification of operations a central part of their mission. They see HCX+ as a crucial resource in helping VMware’s customers navigate their mobility and migration necessities effectively.
VMware is addressing a prominent challenge where a massive 89% of companies encounter significant hurdles when transitioning to the cloud, whether private or public. This migration process is fraught with complexities stemming from a variety of reasons such as site incompatibilities and the intricacies of ensuring a smooth transition without negatively affecting the end-user experience. Such transitions demand substantial endorsement from diverse business stakeholders, who need assurance that their applications are moving from a familiar setting without any glitches.
Moreover, VMware acknowledges the challenges introduced by inflexible IP address protocols and the prevailing uncertainty that accompanies the migration of these VMs. A pivotal promise that VMware aims to fulfill is ensuring zero business disruptions during this transitional journey, thereby instilling a sense of reliability and confidence as enterprises undertake this significant shift.
HCX+ is focused on customers modernizing their enterprise by migrating on-prem vSphere to VMware Cloud on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. They can also migrate other hypervisors into these services, such as KVM or Hyper-V. HCX+ is focused on simplifying these migrations. Once you install the OVA into vCenter, they believe that will be the last time you have to interact directly with that site; HCX+ will handle things from there.
This allows you to manage and report on multiple different deployments all from a single console. This should provide a much more cohesive view of a large VMware deployment, both on-prem and in the cloud.
One surprise, especially given that they talked about them at the same time, is that there appears to be no integration with the NSX+ stack. VMware assured us that the two products were compatible, or could run at the same time on the same infrastructure, but just didn’t integrate.
My thoughts are similar to what I said about NSX+. What Vmware talked about now sounds interesting, but the truly interesting part is what they’re promising – being able to migrate anything to/from anything. They didn’t give any roadmap info, but that would be a pretty big deal if they could accomplish that.
Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O'Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at Sullivan Strickler, which helps companies manage their legacy data
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