Migrating workloads to VCF as a Service with VCDA
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Deliver simple, secure, and cost-effective migration support with VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA).
Both migration and disaster recovery support are available when you install the VCDA service. For more information about disaster recovery configurations, see Protecting workload data in VCF as a Service with VCDA.
The VCDA service is included by default in all multitenant virtual data centers (VDCs) and optionally included in your single-tenant IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service Cloud Director site order at no charge. For a VCDA disaster recovery configuration, a monthly charge is incurred per protected virtual machine (VM).
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a Service with VCDA supports several migration scenarios:
- Migrate vCenter virtual machine workloads from on-premises and vCenter Server environments to VCF as a Service over the public or private IBM® network
- Migrate workloads from VCF as a Service single-tenant and multitenant instances to another VCF as a Service instance
- Migrate workloads from VMware Cloud Director™ instances to VCF as a Service environments
You must open an IBM Support ticket to request a VCDA connection from your VMware Cloud Director instance to VCF as a Service. For more information, see Connecting VMware Cloud Director instances to VCF as a Service.
IBM provides public instance endpoints with VCDA. Endpoints are used to access the VCDA web interface and also to migrate workloads. You can request new endpoints for private connections for an additional charge. With private endpoints, you can migrate workloads into VCF as a Service by using the IBM Cloud private network to improve consistency and security. Cloud-to-cloud migrations from VCF as a Service to VCF as a Service are over the private network.
Accessing the VMware Cloud Director Availability console
When you are ready to complete your migration or data recovery configuration, you can access the VCDA console from the Add-on services tab of a virtual data center instance details page for both multitenant and single-tenant instances.
Procedure to access the VMware Cloud Director Availability console from the instance
- In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation panel.
- On the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service page, click the virtual data center name.
- Click the Add-on services tab in the instance details page.
- In the VMware Cloud Director Availability section, click Open VCDA.
- Use a user with the Organization Administrator role to log in to the VCDA console. A newly provisioned virtual data center's admin user has the role by default.
Alternatively, you can access the VCDA console through the Cloud Director site details page. For more information, see Viewing migration details.