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  • 1.  vCenter to vCloud director

    Posted Jan 19, 2017 05:16 PM

    Hello,

    I was speaking to a private cloud organisation last week and they told me that using vCenter on-prem I can easily migrate my VMs to their vCloud, and then back and forth. They explained that this was as simple as a vMotion?

    Can anyone shed some light here as google only has some information dated 2015.

    Thanks

    Ravi



  • 2.  RE: vCenter to vCloud director
    Best Answer

    Posted Jan 19, 2017 10:09 PM

    Any specific features that you are referring to?

    If you have a vCenter managed by a vCloud Director, you can import a VM - can be online in new vCD 8.10 but must be powered off in previous version

    Import Running VM to vCloud Director – Tom Fojta's Blog

    VMware vCloud Director 8.10 Documentation-Import a Virtual Machine as a vApp

    If you are referring to vCloud Connector, the VM needs to be powered off

    VMware vCloud Connector 2.7 Documentation Center-Stretch Deploy a VM or vApp from a Private vSphere Cloud to a Public vCloud



  • 3.  RE: vCenter to vCloud director

    Posted Jan 20, 2017 06:25 PM

    Thanks - I think its vCloud Connector by the looks of it all.

    Have you/any others had any real experience using vCloud Connector to "copy" my vApps to a private vCloud from the likes of Rackspace/iomart/colt/etc?