Protecting virtual machine - On prem

Owned by John Hicks
Last updated: Nov 13, 2023 by Robert Brink
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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 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 number and password.

 

  • Log in to https://portal.cloudist.se

  • Select Virtual Data Center service

  • Select the Virtual Datacenter you would to migrate to and click on the Virtual Datacenter name to open Cloud Director UI.

  • 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