Introduction
This guide is for performing an on-premise virtual machine migration via theCloudist VDC user interface.
These steps are also applicable for performing migrations via the VMware Cloud Director Availability extension for your on-prem vSphere environment.
Prerequisites
You You must be onboarded in the Cloudist Solutions Portal and have:
A provisioned Virtual Data Center
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in the Cloudist VDC service
Your customer/organization number
Your username and password
You must have deployed the Vmware Cloud Director Availability On-Premise appliance
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You have Allow Access from Cloud selected
Procedure
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The Cloudist VDC Availability interface can also be reached directly via the following urls - Sites can be managed asynchronously.
Login details for these are your Cloudist Solutions Portal username@customer/org numer and password.
Creating an account for DR:
Log in to https://
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https://sec1-availability.cloudist.solutions/ui/login (Sweden Central)
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Select Virtual Data Center service
Select the Virtual Datacenter you would like to create the account in and click the name of the Virtual Datacenter to open Cloud Director UI
Once the Cloud Director UI launches, go to Administration
Select New
Enter a username, password and ensure the User has the Organization Administrator role
Click Save
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The username in this example when using DRaaS would be drservice@12345-5678 (your org number)
Procedure
Log in to https://portal.cloudist.solutionsse
Select Virtual Data Center service
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Select the Region Virtual Datacenter you would to migrate to and click on Log in to VDC
The steps are the same for any region
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the name of the Virtual Datacenter to open Cloud Director UI
Once logged into your VDC, click More, then Availability (SEN1-AZ1-VCDA1)
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Observe the progress of the replication
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Starting a Migration or Test Failover
Once the replication has completed you can begin a migration or a test failover to present the virtual machine in your target VDC.
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