Restore to a new vCloud Director environment

[fraack]

Hi,

I´ve got a question based on a scenario at one of our customers. Is it possible to restore a complete vCD org to a dedicated and newer vCD environment?

Background for this question is that our customer runs everything on extremly old releases (Sphere 6.0, NSX-V 6.4 andVMware vCloud Director 9.1). To avoid a long upgrade path the idea was to deploy a complete new environment (vSphere, NSX-T and vCD) and restore every single vCD org to this new platform.

Thanks in advance

[veremin]

Hi, Florian,

The highest level of backup entity we support is vApp, so, in your case you will be able to backup all vApps organization consists of, but to successfully restore them to new vCD server you will need to re-create organizations and organization vDCs beforehand.

Thanks!

[Andreas Neufert]

Important point would be as well that VM restors are done as full VMs not linked/fast clones.
Don´t forget to migrate as well your VM template catalogs. => Potentially rollout new VMs (linked clones are OK) backup them and restore them to the new environment. Make them templates again and add to the catalog. (If you do not use another tool for this).

[fraack]

Hi,
we are now in the process of migrating all vApps to the new vCD deployment. Now we are facing a challenge. In the old vCD our vAPPS had IP-adresses configured. The users use these addresses partly statically (i.e. in the VMs) and there are a lot of rules (Nat, communication, etc.) configured. If we now migrate the vAPPs with Veeam we get "new" IPs in the vCD (there is no setting option for this in Veeam). This causes some trouble because the IP-adresses are used for several things in the background.

Is there any decent way to preserve the original vAPP IP during the restore?

Thanks in Advance
Florian