What’s New

What’s New in HCX 4.9

GA 26 MAR 2024 | Build 23529166 (Connector), 23529167 (Cloud)

  • Air-gap Deployment
  • HCX for Migration to vVol Datastores (Non-RAV)
  • Customer Experience Improvement Program
  • Licensing Updates
    • VCF Licensing
    • Local Licensing / Connected Licensing
    • 60-Day Eval

WHAT’s NEW IN HCX 4.8

GA 21 NOV 2023 | EoGS 21 NOV 2024 | Build 22804409 (Connector), 22804451 (Cloud)

  • Single Cluster Multi-Mesh Scale Out (Selectable Mesh)
  • OSAM for RHEL 8.7 & RHEL 8.8
  • IX Memory to 6GB
  • Interop:
    • HCX for vSphere 8.0 U2
    • HCX for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1
    • HCX for VMware Cloud on AWS 1.24
  • Usability Updates:
    • System Upgrade > Upgrade logs
    • Log Collection Scripts
    • Tech Support Log Content Update
    • Syslog conformance with RFC-5424
    • DNS Diagnostics (dig)
    • Mobility Agent Host & Storage Tags

What’s new in HCX 4.7

GA 27 JUL 2023 | EoGS JUL 27 2024 |  Build 22152196 (Connector), 22152365 (Cloud)

  • HCX for NSX V2T with Migration Coordinator (NSX Federation)
  • 2X Total Scale for Bulk & RAV Migration 300 -> 600
  • HBR update to 8.7 Ep2
  • Interop:
    • HCX for vSphere 8.0 U1
    • HCX for NSX 4.1.1 & NSX 3.2.3
    • HCX for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 1.22
    • HCX for for VSAN 8 ESA
  • Upgrade Snaphots

Initial Availability of vmware HCX+

IA April 25, 2023

What’s New in HCX 4.6

GA Feb 17, 2023 | EoGS Feb 17 2024

  • Migration Retry
  • HCX for IPv6
  • HCX for NSX 4.1
  • Workload Mobility for NSX V2T (Migration Coordinator) – Inter-vCenter Server

What’s New in HCX 4.5.1 (HCX for VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud)

GA Nov 22, 2022 | EoGS Nov 22, 2022

  • HCX for Govcloud runs feature versions equivalent to to 4.5 commercial

What’s New in HCX 4.5

GA Oct 13, 2022 | EoGS Oct 12 2023

  • Workload Mobility for NSX V2T (Migration Coordinator) – Single vCenter Server
  • HCX for vSphere 8.0 (NSX 4.0.1.1)
  • MON for MultiNIC Workloads
  • Seed Checkpoint for Replication-Assisted vMotion
  • Migration Concurrency Maximums Increased

What’s New in HCX 4.4.1 (MAINTENANCE) & 4.3.9 (HCX FOR VMC-GOVCLOUD)

  • HCX 4.4.1 is a significant stabilization for the 4.4 platform and feature set.
  • HCX 4.3.9 is a FedRamp-High certified release for VMC-GovCloud deployments.

What’s New in HCX 4.4

GA July 15, 2022 | EoGS July 15 2022

  • Transport Analytics
  • HCX on Photon OS
  • HCX on HBR 8.4
  • HCX on HW v10
  • MON with FHRP
  • Upgrade Snapshots
  • AWS New Regions / M19

What’s New in HCX 4.3.3 (Maintenance)

  • 4.3.0 is unsupported, upgrade to 4.3.3
  • Platform Stabilization fixes.
  • Mobility Optimized Networking update to Configmax.
  • PowerCLI 12.6 recommended when using HCX.
  • EA definition is updated.
  • Upgrade tips.


What’s New in HCX 4.3.2 (Maintenance)

  • Fixes for NE, HA
  • Fixes for Bulk Migration
  • Fixes for OSAM
  • Fixes for MON

What’s New in HCX 4.3.1 (Maintenance)

  • Platform fixes for general stability.
  • The 4.3.0 release is redacted from publishing systems.
  • Improvements to the System Updates related systems.
  • Reached End of Support for 4.0 (mentioned – not strictly aligned with this release)

What’s New in HCX 4.3.0

What’s New in HCX 4.2.2 (Maintenance)

  • Security Package updates.
  • Bugfix: Guest Customization update for Guest OS Type “windows2019srv_64Guest”.
  • Bugfix: Resolved NSX inventory issue.

What’s New in HCX 4.2.1. (Maintenance)

  • Primarily a Maintenance release with bugfixes.
  • Interoperability with vSphere 7.0 Update 3

What’s New in HCX 4.2 Part II

  • HCX for VMware Cloud Director (VCD) with NSX-T
  • Global GA for HCX Enterprise (all features everywhere)
  • HCX Enterprise for VMC/Dell-EMC

What’s New in HCX 4.2 Part I

  • Real-time Estimates for vMotion
  • Real-time Estimates for RAV
  • Predictive Estimations for RAV Migrations.
  • Custom Attribute Migration with Bulk, RAV and Cold.

What’s New in HCX 4.1 Part II – Seed Checkpoint for HCX Bulk Migration

What’s New in HCX 4.1 Part I – GA for Mobility Optimized Networking

  • Interoperability with vSphere 7.0 Update 2
  • Interoperability with Hardware Version 18/19 for Mobility Agent (HCX vMo/RAV) migrations.
  • Predictive Estimations for Bulk Migration.
  • OSAM for RHEL 7.9 and CentOS 7.9.
  • RAV for legacy NSXv vCloud Director Deployments
  • RAV migration with VMDKs larger than 2TB into VSAN.
  • Enhanced Events for Bulk, HCX vMotion, Cold and RAV migrations.
  • Management Pack 5.2 for vRealize Operations Manager 8.2 – 8.5.
  • Inclusive terminology update.
  • Custom Attribute Migration for HCX vMotion

HCX 4.0 is Generally Available!

  • In-Service Upgrade & Redeploy for Network Extension
  • Enhanced Appliance Details (Packets/Throughput/VM MAC Address info)
  • Migration Real Time Estimates for Bulk Migration
  • Migration Event Details
  • Migrate NSX Security Tags
  • Custom Attributes migration for vMotion
  • Semantic Versioning (Major/Minor/Maintenance) model adopted
  • Increased Product Maximums
    • Max Total appliances 192
    • Max NE appliances 128
    • Max Service Mesh 64
    • OSAM Scale out to 200 across

What’s New – HCX Highlights for Q3 (R141 – R146)

What’s New – May 20th (R140)

What’s New – April 14th (R139)

What’s New – March 30th (R138)

What’s New – Mar 14th (R137)

What’s New – Feb 29th (R136)

What’s New – Feb 18th (R135)

What’s New – Jan 31st (R134)

What’s New – Jan 18th (R133)

What’s New – Dec 13th – Mobility Groups (R132a)

What’s New – Dec 13th – Cloud to Cloud (R132)

What’s New – Nov 17th & 29th (R130 – R131)

What’s New – Nov 1st (R129)

What’s New – Mid Sept – Oct 20th (R126 – R128)

What’s New – Aug 30th (R125)

What’s New – Aug 7th (R124)

What’s New – Jun July (R121 – R123)

What’s New – Jun 3rd (R120)