One of the key capabilities of this solution is the ability to perform a planned migration to the VMware Cloud Provider. This allows the end customer to leverage the replication schedule and RPOs associated with this solution to move virtual workloads in a controlled manner with low impact and downtime of the workloads.

Planned migration differs from disaster recovery because it assumes the source site is still active and available, and then the process cleanly shuts down the source virtual machines in the correctly defined order, and brings the virtual machines online in the target VMware Cloud Provider Program data center.