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Hybrid Linked Mode

Hybrid Linked Mode links your
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
 vCenter Server instance with an on-premises
vCenter
 Single Sign-On domain. You can configure the Hybrid Linked Mode between VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC and on-premises SDDC either directly or through
vCenter
Cloud Gateway to manage both the SDDCs in a single user interface. This can also be used to support VM migration across these SDDCs.
Before you can use Hybrid Linked Mode with
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
, you must configure your on-premises vCenter to enable single sign-on. For more information, see vSphere Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On.
If you link your cloud vCenter Server to a domain that contains multiple vCenter Server instances linked using Enhanced Linked Mode, all those instances are linked to your
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
 SDDC.
Using Hybrid Linked Mode, you can:
  • View and manage the inventories of both your on-premises and
    VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
     SDDC from a single
    vSphere
    Client interface, accessed using Single Sign On (SSO) credentials.
  • Migrate workloads between your on-premises data center and
    VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
     SDDC.
  • Share tags and tag categories from your vCenter Server instance to your
    VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
     SDDC.
Hybrid Linked Mode supports on-premises vCenter Server systems running 6.7 and later with either embedded or external Platform Services Controller (both Windows and vCenter Server Appliance). vCenter Server systems with external Platform Services Controller instances linked in Enhanced Linked Mode are also supported up to the scale limits documented in vSphere 6.7 Configuration Maximums.
You have two options for configuring Hybrid Linked Mode. You can use only one of these options at a time.
  • You can install the vCenter Cloud Gateway Appliance and use it to link from your on-premises data center to the
    VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
     SDDC. In this case, SSO users and groups are mapped from your on-premises environment to the SDDC and you do not need to add an identity source to the SDDC LDAP domain.
  • You can link your
    VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
     to your on-premises vCenter Server. In this case, you must add an identity source to the SDDC LDAP domain.

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