This three-day training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence with VMware
HCX. This course teaches you how to deploy the different architectural components of HCX, and perform the tasks
required to migrate and rebalance workloads across data centers and clouds.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe the workload mobility challenges that VMware HCX addresses.
• Recognize uses cases for VMware HCX.
• Describe the HCX management plane and data plane components.
• Describe the services provided by HCX and recognize the HCX appliances deployed to support each service.
• Deploy HCX Cloud and HCX Connector and configure site-pairing.
• Use network and compute profiles to deploy the HCX Service Mesh.
• Explain the use cases and benefits of HCX+.
• Perform site onboarding and configuration on HCX+
• Describe and configure HCX Network Extension.
• Describe the Traffic Engineering and WAN Optimization capabilities of HCX.
• Differentiate between HCX migration types and their use cases.
• Use VMware HCX to implement a business continuity strategy.
• Manage the lifecycle of VMware HCX.

System administrators, system engineers, migration engineers, and migration architects.

The course has the following required prerequisites:
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] or equivalent strong networking experience.
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
• Disaster recovery and business continuity fundamentals.

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to VMware HCX
• Describe the workload mobility challenges that
VMware HCX addresses.
• Recognize uses cases for VMware HCX.
• Describe the VMware HCX uses cases related to
application migration, upgrades or re-platforms,
workload rebalancing, and business continuity and
protection.
3 HCX Architecture
• Describe the HCX management plane and data
plane components.
• Distinguish between the types of HCX Manager
deployments.
• Explain the role of HCX Cloud and HCX Connector.
• Describe site-pairing at the management plane
level.
• Describe the services provided by HCX.
• Recognize the HCX appliances deployed to support
each HCX service.
• Explain HCX Service Mesh and its benefits.
4 HCX Deployment
• Identify the type of environments that can be
interconnected in HCX.
• Explain the different deployment topologies for
HCX.
• Deploy HCX Cloud on SDDC and on the public
cloud.
• Deploy HCX Connector on-premises.
• Establish site pairing between the source and
destination sites.
• Troubleshoot common HCX Manager deployment
and site pairing problems.
5 Service Mesh Deployment
• Use network and compute profiles to deploy the
HCX Service Mesh.

• Recognize different types of Service Mesh
topologies.
• Identify and troubleshoot common issues with
Service Mesh deployments.
6 HCX+
• Explain the use cases and benefits of HCX+.
• Perform site onboarding and configuration on HCX+
7 HCX Network Extension
• Explain the functionality, benefits and use cases of
HCX Network Extension.
• Compare HCX Network Extension with other L2
extension solutions.
• Distinguish between HCX Network Extension
topologies.
• Describe the benefits of HCX Network Extension
High Availability.
• Create a network extension and validate its
configuration.
• Describe the benefits of Mobility Optimized
Networking (MON).
• Configure a HCX Network Extension with MON.
• Identify and troubleshoot common issues with HCX
Network Extension and MON.
8 Traffic Engineering and WAN Optimization
• Describe the benefits and used cases of Traffic
Engineering and WAN Optimization.
• Configure Traffic Engineering and WAN
Optimization.
9 Workload Mobility
• Identify the different phases of an HCX migration.
• Differentiate between HCX migration types and
their use cases.
• Describe the workflow for HCX Cold and vMotion
migrations.
• Explain the considerations and limitations of HCX
Cold and vMotion migrations.
• Perform HCX Cold and vMotion migrations.
• Describe the workflow for Bulk Migrations and
Replication Assisted vMotion migrations.
• Explain the considerations and limitations of Bulk
Migrations and Replication Assisted vMotion
migrations.
• Perform Bulk Migrations and Replication Assisted
vMotion migrations.
• Describe the workflow for HCX OS Assisted
migrations.
• Explain the considerations and limitations of HCX
OS Assisted migrations.
• Perform HCX OS Assisted migrations.
• Identify and troubleshoot common issues with HCX
migrations.
10 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Explain disaster recovery concepts and
considerations.
• Use VMware HCX to implement a business
continuity strategy.
• Identify and troubleshoot common issues with HCX
Disaster Recovery
11 HCX Lifecycle Management
• Backup and restore the HCX Manager.
• Upgrade HCX components.