We have finally reached the part you have been waiting for- the VMware exit. In this blog, we will move this VM from our vSphere estate to HPE VM Essentials.
The source side is a small vSphere estate, and the target is the 3-node HVM cluster
Add vCenter as a Cloud
In VME, go to Infrastructure → Clouds → + Add → VMware vCenter:
Choose vCenter
Fill in only these fields and leave everything else at its default:
- Name
lon-vc - Enabled : ticked
- Automatically Power On VMs – unticked
Fill in only these fields and leave everything else at its default:
- API URL
https://vcenter.lab.internal/sdk - Username
administrator@vsphere.local, plus its password - Version
7.0, DatacenterDC-Lab, ClusterCL-esx - Inventory Existing Instances: On
- Group:
lab
In next screen, choose our Lab Group
Click Complete
Wait a few minutes for discovery
Create and run the migration plan
Go to Tools → Migrations
Click Add
Under the migration plan, provide all these details
- Source: London-vCenter
- Target: London HVM cluster
- Resource pool – HVM Cluster01
Choose the target Network and Datastore on the HVM
Review and Click Complete.
- Linux username:
ubuntu - Linux password: password.
- Install guest tools: No.
- Preserve network config: Choose Network and Storage
- Skip prechecks: unticked.
- Skip Guest tools: unticked.
Click Run to Start Migration
Precheck → prepare → create → transfer
the source VM is shut down at this point.
- Then use Actions → Convert to Managed to install the agent.
Finally, it completes
It’s on our hvm host, and once everything is okay, hit the Actions menu and set it to managed.
Run a ping check
The migration logs can be viewed from the vme cli so login as admin/password
sudo tail -f /var/log/morpheus/morpheus-ui/current | grep -iE --line-buffered 'migrat.*(warn|error|fail)|exception'Migration done, finally so the tool does the job: one VM moved from vSphere to HVM with its IP intact and the source kept as a rollback.