We are transitioning from vCloud Director 5.5 (VCD) to vRealize Automation 7 Standard (vRA).
I am tasked with moving the 500 VMs that are in catalogs under VCD into vRA.
Here is my psuedo code:
foreach vApp in all the VCD catalogs in all the organizations {
On the vCenter that VCD uses {
Make a thin-copy of the VMs in the vApp
Migrate this new thin VM to shared NFS storage (the storage is used by both the VCD-vCenter and the vRA-vCenter)
Wait until migration is complete
Unregister this new thin VM
}
On the vCenter that vRA uses {
register the VM
migrate the VM off of shared storage and onto the fibre channel storage that vRA uses; place in appropriate folder
make a snapshot of the VM as we are using linked-clones on vRA and linked-clones only work off of snapshots
}
On vRA {
create linked-clone blueprint based on the snapshot
}
}
Thoughts?
Thanks!
-Chris
