{"id":739,"date":"2019-04-10T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/?p=736"},"modified":"2019-04-10T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T14:05:32","slug":"cross-vcenter-migration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/10\/cross-vcenter-migration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross vCenter Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We come across migration issues that need to be done from different environments to\u00a0different locations. These features are already included officially in <strong>VMware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, as can be seen from the following link, many of us afraid of integration steps needed and it also has licensing requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2106952\">https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2106952<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of you know that there is a portal called <strong>VMware<\/strong> <strong>Flings<\/strong>, where <strong>VMware<\/strong> <strong>Professionals<\/strong> are developing unofficial solutions for business needs.<\/p>\n<p>Again, after a project need, I came across the following tool\u00a0and realized that the <strong>Cross vCenter Migration<\/strong> would become incredibly easy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-744\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cross-vCenter-Workload-Migration-Utility-2019-04-10-16-59-05-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"139\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.vmware.com\/flings\/cross-vcenter-workload-migration-utility\">https:\/\/labs.vmware.com\/flings\/cross-vcenter-workload-migration-utility<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make the tool work, <strong>JAVA<\/strong> is mandatory, you can run it on the server or even on your personal computer and carry out operations, but!<\/p>\n<p>If the tool could be installed in a virtualization environment with a simple <strong>OVA template<\/strong>, how would it be if it was automatically opened and used through the browser without requiring any further <strong>Linux<\/strong> knowledge?<\/p>\n<p>I feel like i hear you all saying it&#8217;s good \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Based on this need, I added <strong>Java<\/strong> on a minimal <strong>Photon OS<\/strong>, and created a service for <strong>Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility,<\/strong> thus the service can now start automatically when the virtual server starts. I have also customized this <strong>OVF Template<\/strong> using the steps <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuallyghetto.com\/2019\/02\/building-your-own-virtual-appliances-using-ovf-properties-part-2.html\">on this site <\/a><\/strong>such a way that network requirements can be entered during the deployment phase.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the <strong>OVA<\/strong> file with installation information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/vzf5s63y94txbxp\/Cross%20vCenter%20Migration%20Utility%202.5%20Embedded%20VM.zip?dl=0\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your comments are important to me, I hope it will be useful for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We come across migration issues that need to be done from different environments to\u00a0different locations. These features are already included officially in VMware. However, as can be seen from the following link, many of us afraid of integration steps needed and it also has licensing requirements. https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2106952 Many of you know that there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}