How to limit bandwidth for HCX migrations

Products

• VMware HCX
• VMware Cloud on AWS

Issue/Introduction

This article describes how to limit bandwidth for HCX Migrations. 

Environment

HCX

VMC

Resolution

In order to set a migration bandwidth limit you must enable the Wan-Opt appliance. Once that is enabled, the below "Advanced Configuration" section will become available.

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Additional Information

The bandwidth change won’t take effect until the WO Appliance is redeployed. Redeploying the Wan-Opt flushes the cache and removes any benefit already learned. Keep this in mind when modifying this setting..