5.2 Cloud Service Tenant Operations
5.2.1 Executing Long-Distance vSphere vMotion Operations
Long-distance vSphere vMotion can be executed through the vSphere Web Client user interface of the vCenter Server instances that are members of the same PSC domain. The process is very similar to the normal vSphere vMotion operations:
1. Right-click the selected virtual machine.
2. Select Migrate.
3. Select Change both compute resources and storage.
4. Drill down to select the correct target vCenter Server and vSphere cluster.
5. Select storage and disk format.
6. Select the network to attach to in the target site. (If universal objects are configured, this will be the same universal logical switch.)
7. Schedule high-priority or normal vSphere vMotion operation.
The vSphere vMotion operation will then start to migrate the workload across to the provider data center and vCenter Server.
If the vCenter Server instances are not part of the same PSC domain, long-distance vSphere vMotion operations must be executed through the API. See this
example script written by a VMware engineer.