To support migrations from private cloud sites running VMware Cloud Director to VMware Cloud Director service, in the private cloud deploy or upgrade to VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.2, pair the existing instance of VMware Cloud Director Availability operating in this private cloud and enable the VMC data engine.
In addition to migrating workloads from on-premises sites to VMware Cloud on AWS, to perform migrations from VMware Cloud Director cloud sites, also called private cloud sites, first pair then configure them with the VMC data engine.
Prerequisites
- Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.2 is deployed in the private cloud site.
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Important: Verify that before pairing a private cloud site, the Public Service Endpoint public-IP-address of the Tunnel Appliance in the private cloud site is added as trusted in both the management and in the compute groups in the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. For information about adding the IP address in the trusted inventory groups, see Prepare the SDDC in VMware Cloud on AWS for deployment.
- Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability configuration in the VMware Cloud on AWS environment is complete. For more information, see Configure VMware Cloud Director Availability in VMware Cloud on AWS.
Procedure
Results
The private cloud site is paired and prepared to migrate workloads to the VMware Cloud on AWS environment.
What to do next
You can now create migrations and migrate workloads from the paired private cloud site to VMware Cloud on AWS. These migrations to VMware Cloud Director service follow the same configuration as migrations to VMware Cloud Director. For information about creating a migration and migrating the workload, see Create a Migration and Perform a Migrate Task in the User Guide.