PHASE 1: Installing CE Agent on the
Source Server
Step1:
Download the CE agent from Cloud Endure Website.
Step2:
Log-in to the source server and copy the CE Agent on it to
run.
Step3:
Get the following details from the Source server:
i.
CPU count
ii.
Memory (RAM) count
iii.
OS type and version
iv.
Number of disks attached to it
Ensure that Outbound Internet access is enabled in these
servers.
Step4:
Run the Installer as administrator
Step5:
It will ask for the username and password. Provide the same.
Step6:
Once it accepts, it will connect to the Cloud Endure
management console from the source server. (If there is no internet
connectivity available then it would throw out an error)
Here it will show the number of harddisk drives it could
recognize in the source server. Validate with your gathered data.
Step6:*
Note down the size and order of the disks properly. You need
to create these disks in the Target VM in the same order as it has been in this
screen.
Step7:
It will ask for port numbers and hostname. Generally we do not
need to put anything manually and have to select the default value (by clicking
the enter button).
Step8:
It will download and install the CE agent from the management
console.
Step9:
It will successfully get registered in the CE database.
Step10:
Once the installation is finished it will show the message.
Step11:
You can verify it from the log file that gets generated as
soon as you run the agent.
This completes your work on the Source Machine.
Next you need to get into the Target (Vmware) environment to
create an empty VM which would be a replica of the source.
PHASE 2: Creating replica Target VM
in the Vmware environment
In this
phase, the replica target VM, once created, would be booted using the CE.iso
file. The .iso file has been downloaded from the CE site and have been copied
to our vCenter Datastores. The VM would not be having any Operating System on
it and would be booted for the first time using this .iso image. This will help
it to synchronize with the source VM under the monitoring of the CE management
console.
Step1:
Log-in to the vCenter. Create a new virtual machine from the
vCenter console.
Select the custom option.
Step2:
Name the hostname with a _CE
extension to identify that it is a Cloud Endure based migration. It will not
appear by default.
Step3:
Select the Cluster where you want the VM to be hosted and
select the host accordingly.
A pre-requisite of it would be to get the details of the cluster
capacity to select the ideal one based upon the target server resource
requirement.
Step4:
Select the Datastore which has the
sufficient free space to host the VM disks. You need to check it well in advance.
Step5:
Select the vm machine version based on
your vSphere Environment.
Step6:
Select the guest OS as the source
server.
Step7:
Select the number of CPU. It has two
parts.
i.
Number of sockets
ii.
Number of
cores/socket
You should try to get these information
as much accurate as possible.
Step8:
Configure the memory (RAM) details as the source server.
Step9:
Selecting the network adaptor is an important step.
If you are creating a Linux VM, then select E1000.
For Windows VM it should be Vmxnet3 (for vSphere 6 and onwards).
If there is a back-up network available in the source then you
need to create 2 vNICs.
Step10:
While selecting the storage SCSI controller adaptor we need to
keep the following thing in mind:
1. For
Windows it should be LSI logic SAS
2. For
Linux it should be LSI logic Parallel
If not done properly, the target VM will not boot from the OS.
Step11:
Create the disks, as per the data you have gathered from the
source server, and in the same sequence as of the CE agent.
Step12:
In Cloud Endure migration always select the disk file as Zero Thick.
Step13:
Keep the SCSI controller as 0:0. The count will increase by 1
for any additional addition of disk.
The VM will get created. Repeat step 11 and 12 to create
additional disks as per requirement.
Step14:
Next, we need to assign the proper VLAN tag to the network
interface from VM Edit settings .Please take a note of it from the team before
doing this job.
Step15:
From VM Settings, we need to enable the CPU/RAM Hot Pluggable
option.
Step16:
We have created a VM without an Operating System. To boot the
VM with CE .iso file we need to mount it in the VM CD ROM drive. The cloud
endure .iso file should be accessible from all the ESXi clusters.
Step 17:
Browse the appropriate datastore as per the requirement
Step18:
Select the .iso file as shown below. This will ask to assign a
Temporary IP Address while you Power on
the VM and log-in to it from console.
Step19:
Upon receiving the Temp IP Address, based on the server name CE will identify any
similar servers in its database and prompt for the CE ID to be entered. Enter
the correct CE ID for the source server when prompted. This step maps the
target to the source for replication, so make sure the server name matches
exactly. Hit enter for the next few prompts, CE just verifies the disk mapping
and IPs it has picked automatically here.
Step20:
Logon to CE web console, type the server name in search box
and check the progress. If the progress moves above 1.01% it means the
replication has started.
