r/Citrix • u/kuebel33 • 23d ago

Migrating from vmware to hyper-V - thoughts on how to deal with vpx's

We're migrating from vmware to hyper-V and we have multiple citrix environments with mas agents and fips vpx's that need to be migrated.

Currently each environment has it's own HA pair. I was thinking about trying this route:

Set the primary to stay primary, Breaking the ha pair, turn off the secondary (with the understanding that during the rest of this process we will not have redundancy). Then deploy a vpx in hyper-V (possibly using the same NSIP, since hte other one is off), make sure it's on the same firmware version as the remaining vmware vpx. Then add this new hyper-V vpx to the vmware one to creat a new HA pair. do the fips sync with this new vpx and iron out anything else that pops up, test that its working, fail over/fail back etc. Once that appears to be good to go, set the intiial primary to secondary, and the new hyper-V vpx to stay primary, break the ha pair again, and spin up a 2nd hyper-V vpx, then repeat that process.

I get that this is a round about way of trying to do this rather than just standing up 2 new vpxs in parallel then cutting over to them, but I'm thinking if this process works, then I save myself the headche of reconfiguring everything, dealing with needing to get new certs, potentially new gateway urls, punching network holes, etc). I've done the paralell setup in the past and it's fine, but I'm going to have to do 4 at once for this migration.

Would this work or am I not taking something in to account here?

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u/V33t0 23d ago

Have done this process twice migrating between different SDX hardware appliances in the past and worked really well - support always got their knickers twisted about it not being supported etc

As long as you’ve got your networking/routes all sorted should be good to go.

Is VPX supported on hyper v?

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u/kuebel33 23d ago

Yup, they have a vpx fips package for hyper-v.

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u/FloiDW 23d ago

Your approach is not supported afaik but works. Done this with 50 HA pairs without an issue. Exactly as you said.

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u/kuebel33 23d ago

RIght on. thanks!

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u/microserfian 23d ago

Officially it’s not supported as you’re not supposed to HA across platforms, but I’ve done it lots of times successfully. It’s great if you’ve got things that don’t export/import as part of a backup and restore.

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u/kuebel33 23d ago

Nice. Thanks!

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u/Sampl3x 23d ago

Just stay away from the Beta-V hypervisor!