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Automating VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS) with VMC

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VMware Site Recovery provides customers with an easy and on-demand Disaster Recovery as-as-Service (DRaaS) for both their on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) workloads. DRaaS is one of the most popular VMware Cloud Service as it literally enables customers to setup a fully functional target DR site with just a click of a button, no joke!


As simple as this is, customers are also interested in automating the setup of DRaaS, especially for testing purposes. A couple of weeks back, I had a customer reach out asking if it was possible to automate the setup of DRaaS?

Funny enough, I just had this conversation a few weeks prior with the PM/Engineer and was in the process of looking into this. It turns out we do indeed have DRaaS Service API, which is what the VMC Console uses, however we had not publicized the API nor showed how to actually get more information about it. Do not worry, I have already feature request with the PM to not only get this published publicly but also show up as part of the VMC Developer Center API Explorer 🙂

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Automating complete HCX deployment and configuration to first cloud migration using PowerCLI

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PowerCLI 11.2.0, was just released last week and for a "dot" release, it includes a number of new capabilities and enhancements. One of the most exciting features for me personally was the introduction of the VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) PowerCLI module which I also had the pleasure of working on and providing early feedback to the HCX Engineering team. The new HCX module enables customers to use PowerCLI to now easily automate the HCX Fleet deployment (Interconnect, WAN Optimization and Network Extension) as well as perform bulk live migrations of  workloads between two HCX-enabled environments, with on-premises vSphere to VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) being the most popular.

I have written a number articles on HCX Automation using both the HCX REST API and PowerCLI and with this latest PowerCLI module, I realized that we now have complete end-to-end automation with PowerCLI from the HCX OVA deployment to initial configuration and fleet deployment to your very first HCX vMotion! This is quite exciting as I know a number of folks have been asking about automating the fleet deployment, especially for enabling quick proof of concepts and quickly showing the value of HCX to our customers for moving large amount of workloads without any downtime.

Below, you will find a breakdown of the HCX setup which I have split into three sections, each section includes the respective PowerCLI sample code that can easily be adapted to your own environment. I look forward to seeing what customers do with the new HCX PowerCLI module and if you have any feedback, be sure to leave a comment or better yet, file a feature enhancement using the PowerCLI Feature Request Tool.

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