After running a migration assessment, use the migration assistant tool to migrate your source environment to vRealize Automation 8.

The vRealize Automation 8 Migration Assistant allows you to incrementally migrate your source environment with zero downtime or a scheduled maintenance window. This provides more customization and control over which infrastructure, subscription, and deployment components are migrated to vRealize Automation 8. The vRealize Automation migration assistant only migrates used or published content. The migration assistant does not migrate disabled or draft content. Before you can migrate you have to perform a migration assessment on your source environment. This assessment determines the migration readiness of your source environment components. After running a migration assessment, the results are listed on the Assessment > Infrastructure page by tenant. All assessed items are listed with their status:

  • Ready - Ready for migration. No action is needed for migration readiness.
  • Ready with warnings - Ready but needs review. Remediate any issues that might impact migration.
  • Not Ready - Not ready for migration. Review details of the item in your source environment and correct areas needing attention.
  • Assessing - Still being assessed for migration readiness.
  • Assessment failed - The assessment failed. Verify that vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation are accessible and retry assessment.

To migrate, select the items you want to migrate and click Migrate. The status updates to:

  • Migrating - Item is being migrated.
  • Migrated - Migration is complete and successful. You can view and use the migrated item in your vRealize Automation 8 environment.
  • Failed - The migration failed. Review the item in your source environment, modify as needed, retry migration.
  • Excluded - Business group, subscription, or deployment that was listed as Not ready was migrated but its not ready items were not migrated and are listed as excluded.

If the component you are migrating has dependencies that have not been migrated first the migration fails. For example, if you want to migrate a subscription that has infrastructure criteria you must first migrate the infrastructure component.

Note: Once you migrate a deployment, the migration of its associated business group is complete.

After migration, your vRealize Automation 7 source content remains unchanged.

Incremental Migration

The vRealize Automation 8 migration assistant allows you to incrementally migrate your source environment instead of performing a full migration all at once using the migrate with reassessment option. The migrate with reassessment option reassesses your source environment and migrates any changes to the target environment. For example, if you migrate a business group with 5 blueprints, then create or publish 5 more in your source environment, you can migrate the new 5 blueprints to the same business group. Only new source environment content is migrated. Changes to any migrated source content will not be migrated.