Introduction
This guide is for performing an on-premise virtual machine Protection via the Cloudist 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 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
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.
https://sen1-availability.cloudist.solutions/ui/login (Sweden North)
https://sec1-availability.cloudist.solutions/ui/login (Sweden Central)
Log in to https://portal.cloudist.solutions
Select Virtual Data Center
Select the Region you would to migrate to and click on Log in to VDC
The steps are the same for any region
Once logged into your VDC, click More, then Availability (SEN1-AZ1-VCDA1)
Go to Incoming Replications, then From On-Premises
Click on the New protection icon
Ensure Source Site and Select VMs to replicate from correspond with your correct on-prem environment
Select a VM to replicate and click Next
Choose the Cloudist VDC you would like to migrate to
Choose the Storage Policy the virtual machine should reside on, then click Next
Choose an appropriate SLA profile for the replication
Choose whether to Exclude disks that are not required for replication
Choose to whether to Configure Seed VMs if you have perhaps an already replicated older copy
Review the Ready To Complete summary and click Finish to begin the first replication
Observe the progress of the replication
