Unable to download Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility

[Hadjer Aouissa]

Hello,

I need to live migrate some VMs between 2 vCenter instances, but the download link for Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility is broken : https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/xvc-mobility-cli/xvm-3.1.jar

Can anyone provide a valid link ?

[Mark Edwards]

 - Indeed, whilst the Flings website is back online, most of the download links appear to be broken.

 

William Lam wrote a blog post about this Fling in his blog here and you can still download the original script from his Github page here 

 

Note also that this Fling was actually productized in vCenter 7.0 Update 1C, and you can import VMs from vCenter 6.5 or later into vCenter 7.0 U1C or later. The feature is called Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion.

 

HTH

[Hadjer Aouissa]

Hello ,

From what i saw on the fling website, this utility is java based app, the link you provided is for bulk migration .

I have a 6.7 vCenter with an enterprise plus licence and i want to live migrate my workloads to vCenter7, but the option is not appearing in my old vCenter.

Regards.

[Mark Edwards]

 - Ah in which case you're in luck, you're just looking in the wrong place 

 

As per my first post, this fling was productized in vCenter 7.0U1c, so as long as your vCenter 7 version is later than that, you need to use the "import" function on the new vCenter, rather than try to migrate them from the old one. I did exactly the same migration from 6.7 to 7.0 and it worked perfectly.

 

The feature is called Advanced cross vCenter vMotion and i have written a blog post about it here:

https://www.virt-ed.com/post/advanced-cross-vcenter-vmotion

 

HTH

 

[Hadjer Aouissa]

Hello ,

Thank you so much, it worked !

 

[Mark Edwards]

 - you are very welcome