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Using PowerCLI and vSphere Tags to create/migrate HCX Mobility Groups to VMware Cloud SDDC

10.21.2020 by William Lam // 3 Comments

If using your voice to create an HCX Mobility Group and initiate a migration to a VMware Cloud SDDC is not your thing, here is a more practical example using PowerCLI which includes HCX cmdlets that was introduced awhile back.


Here are the 12 configurable variables that you will need to update based on your own environment.

$VC_SERVER="vcsa.vmware.corp"
$VC_USERNAME="*protected email*"
$VC_PASSWORD="VMware1!"
$HCX_SERVER="hcx.vmware.corp"

$VSPHERE_TAG_CATEGORY="Cloud"
$VSPHERE_TAG_NAME="VMC"

# vMotion, Bulk, Cold, RAV, OsAssistedMigration
$MIGRATION_TYPE="RAV"

$TARGET_NETWORK_NAME="L2E_HOL-10-f58e483b"
$TARGET_DATASTORE_NAME="WorkloadDatastore"
$TARGET_RESOURCE_POOL_NAME="Compute-ResourcePool"
$TARGET_VM_FOLDER_NAME="Workloads"

$MOBILITY_GROUP_NAME="VMworld-2020-Demo"

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Categories // Automation, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, PowerCLI, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS Tags // HCX, Mobility Group, PowerCLI, tag, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS

VMworld 2020 Demo - Voice activated workload migration to VMware Cloud SDDCs

10.19.2020 by William Lam // 2 Comments

One of my favorite but also most stressful part of preparing for a VMworld session is creating the demos. Even with a "virtual" VMworld this year, I personally felt it was even more stressful than a physical VMworld.

I have been presenting with Emad Younis for a number of years now and every year, we always end up with crazy ideas without thinking through all the feasibility aspects. This year was certainly no different and while working on our demo this year, I was seriously questioning my sanity and even the actual return on investment (ROI), if such a thing exists!? πŸ˜‚

In case you have not watched our session, check out HCP132: Planes, Trains and Workload Mobility, you can watch it for free and see the full demo.


I was really floored by all the positive feedback that we had received from attendees which includes the VMworld survey but also on Twitter and Slack. This was one of my favorite tweet and response πŸ˜€

Best session I have seen so farπŸ‘πŸ˜

— Wesley Geelhoed (@wessieloerus) September 30, 2020

We really appreciate all the feedback and it definitely made up for some of the late nights where I was about to give up. I know a few of you were asking for more details about the demo and so this blog post will be focusing on some of the information I was not able to get to during the VMworld session.

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Categories // Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine, HCX, VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMworld Tags // Alexa, AWS, Azure Cognitive Service, Diagflow, Google, Microsoft, VMware Cloud

VMware Cloud Services Status APIs

05.04.2020 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

For customers that use any of the VMware Cloud Services, you can check the status of any or all services by visiting https://status.vmware-services.io. You even have the option of subscribe via a number of communication channels to receive updates.


Awhile back, I had someone ask whether our status page which uses the status.io service provides any APIs that could be used to programmatically retrieve status for specific service. I figured there probably is a way but only recently did I have a chance to follow-up on that request. The answer is yes and below is a quick example on how you use the REST APIs.

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Categories // Automation, VMware Cloud on AWS Tags // VMware Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

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