For today's Blog I will show you the actual process of v2t migration I successfully completed.
I have this project in our company that I'm involved with. To migrated all 202 tenant Org VDCs from NSX-V to NSX-T backing type network.
Important need to prepare before initiating the v2t migration:
Prepare the Destination ESXi resource Cluster
Setup NSX-T Manager and meet the requirements base on VMware KB best practice https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/3.2/installation/GUID-14183A62-8E8D-43CC-92E0-E8D72E198D5A.html
Make sure ESXi in Destination cluster NSX-T prepared meaning vib is installed
Don't for get run the NSX Migration Tool Pre-Check, make sure it is successful
To do the pre-check
Open CMD point the directory in your nsx migration tool folder path and run vcdNSXMigrator.exe --filepath E:\VMware-NSX-Migration-for-VMware-Cloud-Director-1.4.2\vcdNSXMigrator\V2T_South\OrgVDC.yml --passwordFile passfileGC --preCheck
We can see the output below that the pre-check is successful meaning it's ready for v2t migration
In case there is an error you need to fix or remediate that
To initiate the migration
Run this next command >> vcdNSXMigrator.exe --filepath E:\VMware-NSX-Migration-for-VMware-Cloud-Director-1.4.2\vcdNSXMigrator\V2T_South\OrgVDC.yml --passwordFile passfileGC
Here is the successful output
We can see here that Target or Destination Org VDC is created included the edges, routed, isolated and imported networks
Also we can see that vApp and VM is moved to the destination Org VDC
Note: Before running the clean up you should get client health check confirmation. Once clean up is initiated and successful you can't rollback anymore.
To initiate the clean up
Run this command >> vcdNSXMigrator.exe --filepath E:\VMware-NSX-Migration-for-VMware-Cloud-Director-1.4.2\vcdNSXMigrator\V2T_South\OrgVDC.yml --passwordFile passfileGC --cleanup
Once clean up process is completed you will notice that Source Org VDC is deleted and renamed the Destination Org VDC same to the Original Naming included the networks
That's All :)
Note: This is my personal and owned experience that I love to share in the VMware Community. I hope you appreciate it, thank you