2.9.1 Offline Data Transfer Services
Offline Data Transfer is an optional data migration service for transferring large numbers of virtual machines, VMware vSphere vApps™, or templates from your local private vSphere or vCloud Director environments to your VMware Powered Public Cloud VMware Cloud Provider environments. vCloud Connector is used to invoke the service.
As part of this service, a VMware Cloud Provider does the following:
• Ships a physical storage device to the consumer to load VMs, vApps, or templates onto that device and ships it back to the VMware Cloud Provider using a preferred carrier. The content that you load to the device is encrypted by vCloud Connector. The decryption key is stored in the VMware Cloud Provider’s vCloud Connector infrastructure, thereby providing security of consumer content during transfer.
• Transfers the data from the device to the appropriate service-offering instance.