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Cloud-to-cloud migration using VMware Cloud Director Availability

A virtual machine can be migrated from cloud to cloud between different VMware Cloud Director® sites or within the same Cloud Director from one virtual data center (vDC) to another.

  1. From the Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → Cloud Powered by VMware → Cloud Director.

  2. In the More menu, select Availability.

  3. Go to the Outgoing Replications section.

  4. Click ( **New migration **) and select the virtual machine or vApp to migrate.

  5. In the Source VMs and vApps step, in the Destination Site field, click SELECTE SITE and select the Cloud Director site. This can be:

    • another organization; you will need to enter credentials to access the organization's Cloud Director (login is specified in the format administrator-<s-xxxx>@<s-xxxx>, where <s-xxxx> is the organization name);
    • another virtual data center in the current Cloud Director.

  6. In the Destination VDC and Storage policy step, select the virtual data center on the remote site and the storage policy.

  7. Set a convenient time for the initial synchronization.

  8. To save disk space on the remote site, exclude unneeded disks.

  9. If a previously imported copy of the replicated virtual machine is already on the remote site, select it to reduce traffic.

  10. Wait for the initial data synchronization to complete.

  11. Click ( **Migrate **).

  12. In the Migrate settings step, configure the parameters for the virtual machine copy being started on the remote site.

  13. Click Next.

  14. Check the settings and click Finish.

  15. To delete a migration task, select it in the Outgoing Replications section, and in the ALL ACTIONS menu, select Delete replication.