Understanding migration methodologies for VxRail

Data migration involves the transfer of data and host connectivity from one platform to another. When considering which migration methodology to use, there are many requirements and dependencies to be considered. Actually, there are a lot of migration methodologies for VxRail appliances, such as using vSphere Replication, VMware Storage vMotion, or Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, or backing up and restoring the data. In this chapter, we will consider how to migrate a virtual machine from a vSphere cluster into a VxRail cluster and will discuss the migration methodologies for VxRail appliances in two different scenarios. In the first scenario, we will migrate a virtual machine from a vSphere cluster into a VxRail cluster, and both clusters will be managed by different vCenter Server instances. We will use vSphere Replication to migrate the virtual machine into the VxRail cluster. In the second scenario, we will migrate a virtual...