Ensure that your VMware environment meets the following prerequisites for migration to VMware:
Use PlateSpin Migrate Client or PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface to migrate workloads to VMware.
See Table 2-11, Supported Target VMware Platforms for the Migrate Web Interface and Migrate Client.
Your source workload must be supported by PlateSpin Migrate and VMware.
See Section 2.1.1, Supported Source Workloads For Migration to Non-Cloud Platforms.
Your network environment must meet the requirements for access, discovery, and migration described in Access and Communication Requirements across Your Migration Network.
You can optionally set up a PlateSpin Virtual Machine Manager role on your VMware vCenter server that Migrate will use for migrations instead of the vCenter administrator user. See Section 13.3, Configuring a PlateSpin User with Minimal Permissions on VMware.
For semi-automated migrations, ensure that you configure volumes on the target disks with about 50 MB of additional storage space than the source disks.
Raw Device Mapping (RDM) for target VMs on VMware is supported only by using the X2P workflow.
Installing VMware Tools on the target workload:
When you use the X2P workflow for migrating a workload to VMware, you must manually set up the VMware Tools for the target workload before you perform the conversion. See Section 30.3.3, Setting Up VMware Tools for the Target Workload.
Before you migrate a Linux workload, ensure that Perl module is installed on the source Linux workload to enable PlateSpin Migrate to install the VMware tools on the target workload during conversion. Alternatively, you can manually install the VMware tools after the migration is completed on the cutover workload.
Migration of workloads with multiple NICs is supported for Windows workloads up to the number of NICs supported by VMware.
NOTE:When you configure migration for a workload, PlateSpin Migrate lets you specify four IP addresses per NIC on the Windows workload by default. However, you can configure the number of IP addresses that you want to specify per NIC on the workload. See Section 5.7, Configuring Multiple IP Addresses for the Network Interface on Windows Workloads.
For information about configuring the migration, see Migration to VMware.