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Cloud-to-cloud migration using VMware Cloud Director Availability

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Virtual machine migration from cloud to cloud can be performed from one VMware Cloud Director® site to another or within a single Cloud Director instance from one virtual data center (vDC) to another.

  1. From the control panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Cloud Director **** section.

  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 SELECT SITE and select a Cloud Director site. This can be:

    • another organization; you will need to enter credentials to access the Cloud Director organization (the username is 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 a virtual data center at the remote site and a storage policy.

  7. Set a convenient time for the initial synchronization.

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

  9. If a previously imported copy of the replicated virtual machine already exists at 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 settings for the virtual machine copy being launched at the remote site.

  13. Click Next.

  14. Check the settings and click Finish.

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