Updating HCX Migration Maintenance window schedule is not adhered to

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

• After updating/changing the "SCHEDULE" from HCX Manager UI, the migration did not start on the scheduled time/day.
• Ignoring the failover window also would not start the recovery.
  
• When you create a "reverse" HCX Bulk or RAV migration on HCX Manager 4.10 to HCX Manager 4.11, you cannot update the initially created maintenance window from the source HCX Manager (4.10). 
• Validated that the reschedule job is created on both source/target HCX Managers by reviewing the file /common/log/admin/app.log:
  Source HCX-MGR (4.10.3):
  

  <timestamps> UTC [MobilityMigrationService_SvcThread-33905, Ent: HybridityAdmin, , TxId: ########-####-####-####-############] INFO  c.v.h.s.m.j.MobilityMigrationRescheduleJob- Starting to Run Job(########-####-####-####-############):BEGIN

  Target HCX-MGR (4.11):

  <timestamps> UTC [MobilityMigrationService_SvcThread-30645, Ent: HybridityAdmin, , TxId: TxId: ########-####-####-####-############] INFO  c.v.h.s.m.j.MobilityMigrationRescheduleJob- Starting to Run Job(########-####-####-####-############):COMPLETE

 

Environment

VMware HCX 4.10 (Source)

VMware HCX 4.11 (Target)

Cause

• This issue only impacts reverse migrations originating from a 4.10.x HCX Manager to a 4.11 HCX Manager. 
• Due to an internal issue with HCX Migration processing workflow for reverse migration, the reschedule job initiated from source HCX Manager on 4.10 does not get applied on the target 4.11 HCX Manager.

Resolution

Upgrade the source HCX Manager to 4.11.

Workaround:

• Avoid modifying the switchover schedule via source HCX Manager (4.10) and instead modify the schedule from target/cloud Manager (4.11). 
• When modifying the switchover schedule from target HCX Manager, the proper Maintenance window schedule is reflected on the migration UI page both HCX Managers.
   
   

   

   

Additional Information

If both source and target HCX version is 4.11.x

Refer: HCX migrations stuck in "Waiting for maintenance window" for more than 30 days