Migrating Recovered VMs Using Flash Boot

Using Flash boot, you can migrate the recovered VMs to another location. To do this, follow the instructions below:

Migrating Recovered VMware VMs Using Flash boot

To migrate a booted VM from one datastore to another, do the following while the virtual machine is running:

  1. Open vSphere Client.

  2. In the vSphere Client inventory, select the virtual machine recovered with Flash boot that you want to migrate.

  3. Right-click on the VM and select Migrate.

  4. Select Change datastore and click Next.

  5. Select the specific format of your virtual disk.

    Note
    When selecting virtual disk format, do not leave the Same format as source option selected as the VM will be discarded when clicking the Discard VMsbutton in the Flash boot job.

  6. Select the datastore where you want to store the VM.

  7. Review the page and click Finish.

Note
After migrating the booted VMs, you can click the Discard VMs button in the Flash boot job. The job detects that the VMs were migrated and does not discard them.

Replicate booted VMs as described below:

  1. Refresh the Inventory in Settings (so that the VMs created by Flash boot are added to the product). 

  2. Create a new replication job for the VMs that you want to permanently recover. 

  3. Run the replication job. 

  4. After replication is finished, run the job once again. This is required because the recovered VMs were running (and obtaining some changes) while the initial replication was in progress. 

  5. To ensure zero data loss, power off the VMs created by Flash boot in the VMware vSphere client and run the VM replication job one last time. 

  6. Discard the VMs created by Flash boot.

  7. Power on the VMs created by the replication job.