Migrate a Virtual Machine
Cross Cloud vMotion
Ping the machine

- Open a Windows Command Prompt
- Execute the command to ping the VM core-a
ping core-a -t
Start the migration

In HCX Menu
- Select Migration tab
- Click the Migrate Virtual Machines button
Configure the migration
- Select the machine core-A
- Configure the Transfer and Placement with the following:
Compute Container: Compute-ResourcePool
Destination Folder: Workloads
Storage: WorkloadDatastore
Virtual Disk Format: Thin Provisioning - Select vMotion for the Migration Profile
- Click the FINISH button

Relocation tasks are visible in local vCenter
Observe the ping

Observe the response time changing from 1ms (local) to ~65ms (remote)
With real-world environment, the expectation is to loose from zero to one ping.
Cross Cloud vMotion the virtual machine back to on-prem
Find out how to do it!
Bulk-Migration
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