Live cross-vCenter vMotion through Cloud Director

[manu80it]

Hello,

I have Cloud Director 10.5 and we need to do cross vCenter vMotion for moving workloads from one vCenter to new vCenter.

The network is not a problem it's very simple, I have distributed switch and the networks are both in the new vCenter and in the old one.

From vCenter, cross vCenter vMotion works fine without problem.

But how to perform this for workload managed by Cloud Director ?

I think need to create nel organization VDC for each organization and put new VDC on the new vCenter.

But, move VM and vApp from one to another VDC require vApp to be powered off (Move a vApp to Another Virtual Data Center in the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal).

We need to this with live migration, without power-off vApp and VM.

How to accomplish this through Cloud Director ?

Thanks

Manu

[nekas]

You could try move vapp without powering off.
https://developer.broadcom.com/xapis/vmware-cloud-director-api/latest/doc/types/MoveVAppParamsType.html

[bryanvaneeden]

The VCD API can actually do a lot more than the UI, as @nekas mentioned above, that MovevApp API does the trick. For some extra clarification the below blogpost can siginficantly help you:
https://fojta.wordpress.com/2022/03/23/how-to-move-live-vapps-across-org-vdcs/