Migrate a Virtual Machine

Cross Cloud vMotion

Ping the machine

  1. Open a Windows Command Prompt
  2. Execute the command to ping the VM core-a 
ping core-a -t

Start the migration

In HCX Menu

  1. Select Migration tab
  2. Click the Migrate Virtual Machines button

Configure the migration

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  1. Select the machine core-A
  2. Configure the Transfer and Placement with the following:
    Compute Container: Compute-ResourcePool
    Destination Folder: Workloads
    Storage: WorkloadDatastore
    Virtual Disk Format: Thin Provisioning
  3. Select vMotion for the Migration Profile
  4. Click the FINISH button

Observe the migration

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vMotion task can stay queued couple of minutes before actually starting

 

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Relocation tasks are visible in local vCenter

 

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Relocation tasks are visible in remote vCenter

 

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Congratulation! Migration is complete!

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

Try it yourself!