As a VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle user, you can use the Migration Service to migrate contents from your VMware Aria Operations SaaS deployment to your VMware Aria Operations on-prem deployment. The following procedure shows how to migrate your content.

Prerequisites

Verify that a VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle administrator has performed the prerequisites listed on Using the Migration Service in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

Procedure

  1. On the My Services dashboard, click Migration Service.
  2. Click New Migration.
    A a series of migration configuration pages appear. After completing the information on each page, click Next.
    1. Enter the information for the Infrastructure.
      • Type a Migration name.
      • For Product Type, select VMware Aria Operations .
      • For Cloud Service, select the SaaS Content Management endpoint.
      • For On-Prem Destination, select the on-prem endpoint.
        Note: If the product does not exist on-prem, click the + sign to deploy the product and then return to the Migration Service once the deployment has completed.
    2. Enter the information for Configuration.
      • Select a source user, such as your username.
      • Select a destination user, such as admin.
      • Select the destination password and click Validate.
        Note: If the password does not exist, click the + sign to create a password and then select it.
      • (Optional) Under Collector Configuration, if you want to deploy additional collectors, you can map existing cloud collectors to on-prem cloud collectors by deploying new on-prem VMware Aria Operations collectors.
    3. Enter the information for Content Management.
      • For Export, select all content types you would like to export from SaaS to on-prem.
      • For Import, select the behavior in case of a conflict.
        • Skip item(s)
        • Overwrite existing content
      • For Encrypt Password, you must set up a new password to export data for configurations such as integration accounts, http proxies, outbound settings, users, and authentication sources that have sensitive information. The password should be at least 14 characters long.
        Note: If the password does not exist, click the + sign to create a password and then select the locker object.
    4. Enter the information for Integrations.
      • For User Details, provide user information necessary for downloading management packs from the VMware Marketplace during migration, that will be installed on the on-prem VMware Aria Operations instance.
      • Integration Details provides you insight on the adapters that are applicable, installed, unavailable and not applicable for your on-prem product.
        • Available Integrations. Shows all available and activated integrations from on-prem VMware Aria Operations instance. If any Management Packs are missing or not installed, they will be installed when the migration is triggered.
        • Installed Integrations. Integrations that are installed on the on-prem VMware Aria Operations instance.
        • Unsupported. Integrations that are not applicable for the on-prem VMware Aria Operations instance.
        • Installation Unavailable. Integrations that are not available for installation through VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.
    5. Perform pre-validations to assess preparedness before migration.
      Click Validate to begin:
      • Version Check. Ensures VMware Aria Operations on-prem version is 8.14 or later. A best practice is to use the latest version.
      • Health Check. Checks to confirm that the on-prem VMware Aria Operations instance is healthy.
      • Sizing Compatibility Check. Checks for deployment sizing compatibility between the source and the destination, considering the count of objects and metrics.
        Note: If the Sizing Compatibility Check fails, use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to perform a vertical scale up and run the pre-check again.
    6. Review the Summary page.
    7. Click Finish to start the migration.

What to do next

To monitor the migration, click Migration Service > Migration List and review the list of migrations.
Check information in the Request Status, Migration Status, and Content Detail columns for the migration that you submitted.
  • Clicking a status under Request Status or Migration Status opens a Request Details page that displays the stages of the request submitted.
  • Clicking the info icon next to the status under Migration Status, opens a window that displays the status of the migration. If you select the click here link in the window, you are directed to log in to VMware Aria Operations. An Administration > Content Management page automatically opens with a summary of the content migrated on the Import tab.
  • Clicking View under Content Detail opens the Content Pipeline details page and describes the status of the pipeline.