Introduction
This guide is for performing an on-premise virtual machine Protection via the Cloudist VDCuser interface.
These steps are also applicable for performing migrations via the VMware Cloud Director Availability extension for your on-prem vSphere environment.
Prerequisites
You must be onboarded in the Cloudist Solutions Portal and have:
A provisioned Virtual Data Center via the Cloudist VDC service
Your customer/organization number
Your username and password
You must have deployed the VMware Cloud Director Availability On-premises Appliance
You have Allow Access from Cloud selected
Procedure
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The Cloudist VDC Availability Disaster Recovery 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 number and password.
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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 Virtual Datacenter name 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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Initiating a Failover
Once the first replication has completed, further replications will continue as definid by the chosen SLA Profile.
If or when the time comes to fail over the virtual machine:
Select the correct virtual machine and click on the Fail Over icon (available also via All Actions menu
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Choose whether to
Consolidate VM disks
Power on the VM
Connect to a VCD network or keep preconfigured settings
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Choose a recovery instance to failover from and click Next
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Numerous recovery instances will be available based on the SLA Profile you have chosen and the length of time the protection job has ran for |
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Review the summary and click Finish to complete
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During a failover the assumption is that the source VM is no longer available. The failover job will not attempt to shut down the source VM |
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Observe the progress of the failover
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Once completed, go back to Data Centers and the target VDC and find the failed over virtual machine
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