{"id":4538,"date":"2016-01-18T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdnhost.net\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2016-01-18T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:49:14","slug":"vmware-v2v-hot-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/vmware-v2v-hot-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare V2V Hot Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever been in a situation where you have a remotely hosed virtual machine and you want to clone it to your local vCenter cluster?<\/p>\n

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Just about all V2V migrations are cold migrations, which require that the source system be powered off during the conversion process. It is, however, possible to perform a hot migration of a virtual machine using the hot migration method as described in How to Import a Virtual Machine into ESXi: Part 1. After installing vCenter Converter Standalone to the virtual machine, launch the Conversion wizard. Select \u201cPowered-On Machine\u201d from the drop-down menu, click \u201cLocal Machine,\u201d and then follow the same steps as described in the section P2V: Hot Migration.<\/p>\n

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V2V: Hot Migration<\/p>\n

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Suggestion: stop all services on the source VM if there are any database servers or services which would be changing data during the process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. To perform a V2V hot migration in vCenter Converter Standalone, click \u201cConvert Machine.\u201d Select \u201cPowered-on Machine\u201d from the drop-down menu on the Source System tab.<\/li>\n
  2. Select \u201cThis Local Machine\u201d if you intend to migrate the physical machine to where VMware vCenter Conversion is installed. Otherwise, click \u201cA Remote Machine\u201d and then enter the IP address and login credentials for the source system. Click \u201cNext.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Select \u201cVMware Infrastructure Virtual Machine\u201d from the drop-down menu. Enter the server address and login credentials for the system running VMware ESX\/ESXi. Click \u201cNext.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Review the system parameters on the Options tab. To make changes to a device, network or service option, select the desired setting from the list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Click \u201cAdvanced Options\u201d to synchronize the source system with the destination system immediately after cloning or at a scheduled date and time. If you\u2019re cloning a Windows machine, it\u2019s recommended that you check \u201cInstall VMware Tools on the Destination Virtual Machine\u201d and \u201cRemove System Restore Checkpoints on Destination\u201d on the Post-Conversion tab.<\/p>\n

    Click \u201cNext\u201d after making the desired modifications, if applicable.<\/p>\n

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    1. Review your configuration on the Summary tab; then click \u201cFinish\u201d to perform the migration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Ever been in a situation where you have a remotely hosed virtual machine and you want to clone it to your local vCenter cluster?   Just about all V2V migrations are cold migrations, which require that the source system be powered off during the conversion process. It is, however, possible to perform a hot migration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdnhost.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}