PlateSpin Migrate uses the VMware vCloud Director for migrating workloads to VMware vCloud. Before you use PlateSpin Migrate to migrate workloads to VMware vCloud, ensure that the following requirements are met.
NOTE: During the Test Cutover, there is cloning for the target VM that consumes twice the storage resources than you need for Cutover. Ensure that the storage quotas for the Org vDC support that need. The additional resources used is temporary, and will be released after the Test Cutover.
PlateSpin Migrate uses the VMware vCloud Director for migrating workloads to VMware vCloud. For a list of supported workloads, see Supported Workloads For Migration to VMware vCloud Director.
You must set up a vCloud Organization.with at least the following minimum set of resources:
Define one or more Organization Virtual Data Center (Org vDC).
Define one or more Org vDC Network for the target VM.
Create a private Catalog and grant full access permissions for the organization users to access the contents and settings of the catalog.
Use Administrator level credentials for discovering the vCloud Organization and performing migrations.
Define policies that apply to the target VMs in your Org vDC and ensure the following:
The lease period of the vCloud Organization resources should not expire during migration.
No restrictions are set on VM quota.
No restrictions are set on the number of connections or operations to the vCloud organization.
NOTE: During the Test Cutover, there is cloning for the target VM that consumes twice the storage resources than you need for Cutover. Ensure that the storage quotas for the Org vDC support that need. The additional resources used is temporary, and will be released after the Test Cutover.
For more information, see VMware vCloud Director Documentation.
PlateSpin requires a replication environment to migrate workloads to a vCloud Organization. The replication environment is a virtual appliance based on a SLES 11 Operating System and contains all the required PlateSpin tools.
To create this virtual appliance, you must upload a PlateSpin Replication Environment OVF Package to the vCloud organization. You can download this package from the PlateSpin Beta Workspace. For more information, see Creating the PlateSpin Virtual Appliance in the vCloud Organization.
Review the following sections:
PlateSpin uses the following minimum resources for the Replication Environment Virtual Machine:
|
Hardware Resource |
Details |
|---|---|
|
Virtual CPUs |
1 |
|
Cores Per Socket |
1 |
|
RAM |
1 GB |
|
Disk |
4 GB |
|
Network Adapter of type E1000 |
1 |
|
Virtual Hardware Version |
7 |
Ensure that you have set up a vCloud Organization with at least the minimum set of resources. See Setting up vCloud Organization.
Download the PlateSpin Replication Environment file named PlateSpin_Replication_Environment.zip from the PlateSpin Beta Workspace.
Unzip the PlateSpin_Replication_Environment.zip file and extract the contents to a temporary directory. For example, C:\PlateSpin_Replication_Environment.
Use the vCloud Director Web Console to upload the OVF PlateSpin package, which you extracted in the previous step, as a vApp Template to the PlateSpin Catalog.
The vCloud Director Web console displays the replication environment in the following hierarchy:
Catalog Name Catalog (Catalog)
PlateSpin Replication Environment (vApp Template)
PlateSpin Virtual Appliance (VM Template)
Some aspects of your PlateSpin Server behavior is controlled by configuration parameters that you set on a Configuration Web page residing your PlateSpin Server host.
By default, PlateSpin deletes the target VM and its associated resources when there is an error during migration. If you need these resources for troubleshooting purpose and do not want to delete them, set the LeaveCloudResourcesOnError setting to True.
By default, the password required to access the PlateSpin Replication Environment is encrypted. To access the PlateSpin Replication Environment for troubleshooting replication failures, set a password to override its default value. To set a password, edit the value of the vCloudReplicationEnvironmentPassword setting. You can then access the PlateSpin Replication Environment as a root user with the newly set password.