PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14 Virtual Machine User Guide

Migrate an Instant Access session

Once you validate that the instant access virtual machine is the virtual machine that you require for production, click Migrate to open the Migrate Storage vMotion wizard, which enables you select the session and move the virtual machine to a production datastore.

1. From the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, select Restore > Running Sessions, and then click the Instant Access tab.
2. Select a session from the table that is in Mounted state, and click Migrate.
   The Migrate Storage vMotion wizard displays.
3. On the Disk Files Datastore page, select the datastore where you want to relocate the instant access virtual machine, and then click Next.
   • To migrate all VMDKs to the same datastore, keep the Configure per disk slider to the left, and then select the datastore from the Storage list.
   • To migrate VMDKs to separate datastores, move the Configure per disk slider to the right, and then:
     1. Select a datastore for each disk from the Storage list.
     2. Select the type of provisioning you want to apply to the disk from the Disk Format list.
4. On the Summary page, review the information to ensure that the details are correct, and then click Migrate.
5. Go to the Jobs window or the Instant Access window to view the progress of the migration.
   In the Jobs window, the migration job appears with a progress bar and start time. You can also click next to the job to verify what steps have been performed. In the Instant Access window, you can monitor the vMotion status of the migration. When a vMotion is in progress, the status indicates VMotioning. Once the storage vMotion for the session is complete, the status of the session changes to Deleting as the session is being removed from the Instant Access window.