Prerequisites
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A VMware Cloud Availability on-prem appliance, deployed and registered with you on-prem vCenter
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Tenant access to EBC Availability
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Organization Administrator credentials for the destination Cloud site
The following procedure describes how to migrate a virtual machine to EBC Availability. The main difference between a migration and a protection is that the latter has a non-changeable daily interval (RPO=24h).
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Log in to vSphere Client.
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Right-click the virtual machine you want to migrate and select DRaaS.
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In the DRaaS plugin, select your Local availability site.
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Select the Outgoing Replications tab.
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Click ALL ACTIONS and select New Migration.
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Enter an internal Organization Administrator credentials and click LOGIN.
Note: SAML isn't supported.
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In the New Outgoing Replication window, select the virtual machine(s) to migrate and click NEXT.
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Select the destination Organization VDC, choose storage policy and click NEXT.
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(Optional) Select desired migration options and click NEXT.
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Delay start synchronization
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Exclude disks
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Configure Speed VMs
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Review migration workflow and click FINISH to initiate synchronization.
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Monitor replication status and once it's finished, proceed with performing migration.
