HCX OSAM Support for Physical Server Migrations to vSphere

Products

• VMware HCX

Issue/Introduction

Inquiries may arise regarding whether VMware HCX OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) can be utilized to perform Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migrations of bare-metal physical servers to a vSphere environment.

Environment

VMware HCX
Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration

Cause

HCX OSAM is architecturally designed and validated exclusively for migrating non-vSphere virtual machines (specifically those running on KVM and Hyper-V hypervisors) to vSphere. It is not designed or validated for bare-metal physical servers.

Resolution

HCX OSAM is not officially supported for the migration of bare-metal physical servers.

Supported P2V Tool: VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is the officially supported Broadcom tool for executing Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migrations.

Additional Information

• HCX OSAM is not officially supported for the migration of bare-metal physical servers.
• The hypervisors validated and tested for OSAM are KVM and Hyper-V.
• While some customers have successfully utilized OSAM for physical server migrations in the field, this use case remains outside the officially validated compatibility matrix. Any execution of OSAM for physical workloads is performed at the customer's own risk and falls outside standard Broadcom Support guidelines.
• Please do submit a HCX Feature Request . [VCF Operations > VCF Operations - Workload Mobility (HCX)]
• Supported Guest Operating Systems for OSAM
• Migration with Converter Standalone