Breakpoints

The breakpoints feature allows the user to skip or execute any specific workflows. This allows for more flexible migration scenarios where for example bridging is not necessary or vApp migration is performed in other ways or allows for more controlled step-by-step execution of the entire migration process.

The workflows can be executed in the sequence mentioned in the following table:

Keyword	Mandatory/Optional	Desciption
topology	Mandatory	Preparation of target organization VDC, edge gateways, organization VDC networks, etc.
bridging	Optional	L2 bridging configuration between source and target organization VDC networks.
services	Optional	N/S switch over and configuration of networking services.
movevapp	Optional	Workload vApp/VM Migration.

Skip

Skip feature allows to skip one or more workflows (usage: '-s' or '--skip')

Use case:

• Breakpoint allows the user to skip vApp migration. In this scenario, workload migrations can be performed manually using external tools such as VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) or APIs.
• One could decide to skip bridging as the number of networks to bridge is above the maximum of 128.

Command	Desciption
-s bridging	It skips the bridging and executes the remaining workflow's topology, services, and movevApp.
--skip services,movevapp	It skips the services and movevapp workflows. It will execute the topology and bridging.

Execute

This feature allows the user to execute only the specified workflow (Usage: '-e' or '--execute')

Command	Desciption
-e topology	It will execute only the topology replication workflow.
--execute bridging,services	It will execute the topology replication, L2 bridging, and service configuration workflow.

The workflow for Topology Replication (topology) will be mandatorily executed even if not specified in the command.