Welcome to this short video on using a new feature of Trilio for OpenStack to migrate VMware VMs to OpenStack.

In this video, I will demonstrate how we will migrate a couple of CentOS VMs to my Red Hat OpenStack Platform cluster.

Trilio for OpenStack integrates into the Horizon experience, and from here we can launch the VMware Migration plugin to create a Migration Plan.

A migration plan is where you determine which VMs to include in your migration - to the current tenant we’re operating in.
In this case I’ll select these 2 CentOS VMs.
Once selected, I press the Discover VMs menu action button. This then retrieves further information about those chosen VMs.

Once discovered I start the migration process.
I can perform different types of migrations. In this case I’m doing a cold migration, which means it will shutdown the VMs in VMware before getting the contents of the disks to convert for use with OpenStack.

Alternative migration types are Dry Run, which will copy the contents of the running VM in VMware without impact, but create the test VM in OpenStack. Useful for testing purposes of course - allowing you help size and plan your migrations.

And Warm Migration which will do multiple incremental copies - allowing the VM to remain online for longer whilst we copy the delta changes over into OpenStack.

Network Mapping maps VM vSwitch Adapter Networks to OpenStack Networks.
If my VMs have multiple Nics I can map them here.

For Storage, a similar process. Where my disks are stored on Datastores in VMware, I need to map them to my available storage in OpenStack. Here I’m choosing Ceph.

Finally I can select which VMs to bring over. In this example I chose 2 VMs, so I’ll include them both.

When mapping flavours - how resources are assigned in OpenStack, like CPU, RAM and Boot Disk - Trilio automatically chooses the closest available flavour present in OpenStack for use by that VM but you are free to change this here before the migration starts.

The migration phase will start.
After a short while, the migration will have completed successfully, and the VMs will have started up in OpenStack ready for use.

Thank you for watching this short video on easy migrations of VMware VMs into OpenStack with Trilio for OpenStack. For more information, visit Trilio.io.