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Cloud to cloud migration with VMware Cloud Director Availability
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Cloud to cloud migration with VMware Cloud Director Availability

Cloud-to-cloud virtual machine migration can be 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: from the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Cloud Director.

  2. From 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 for access to Cloud Director of the organization (login is specified in the format administrator-<s-xxxx>@<s-xxxx>, where <s-xxxx> is the name of the organization);
    • 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 on the remote site, eliminate unnecessary 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 settings for the running copy of the virtual machine 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, check the task and select Delete replication from the ALL ACTIONS menu.