vCenter to vCloud director

[raviuk]

Hello,

I was speaking to a private cloud organisation last week and they told me that using vCenter on-prem I can easily migrate my VMs to their vCloud, and then back and forth. They explained that this was as simple as a vMotion?

Can anyone shed some light here as google only has some information dated 2015.

Thanks

Ravi

[bayupw · Accepted solution]

Any specific features that you are referring to?

If you have a vCenter managed by a vCloud Director, you can import a VM - can be online in new vCD 8.10 but must be powered off in previous version

Import Running VM to vCloud Director – Tom Fojta's Blog

VMware vCloud Director 8.10 Documentation-Import a Virtual Machine as a vApp‌

If you are referring to vCloud Connector, the VM needs to be powered off

VMware vCloud Connector 2.7 Documentation Center-Stretch Deploy a VM or vApp from a Private vSphere ...

[raviuk]

Thanks - I think its vCloud Connector by the looks of it all.

Have you/any others had any real experience using vCloud Connector to "copy" my vApps to a private vCloud from the likes of Rackspace/iomart/colt/etc?