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Cloud-to-cloud migration using VMware Cloud Director Availability

Cloud-to-cloud virtual machine migration can be performed from one VMware Cloud Director® site to another or within a single 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 Outgoing Replications.

  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 (the 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 at the remote site and the storage policy.

  7. Set a convenient time for the first synchronization.

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

  9. If the remote site already has a previously imported copy of the replicated virtual machine, 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 launched at the remote site.

  13. Click Next.

  14. Check the settings and click Finish.

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