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VPC Migration Tools

This repository provides access to different tools and solutions that can be used to migrate from classic or on-prem resources to IBM Cloud VPC. The tools include individual custom scripts and open source utilities. You can use the tools as is or modify them to fit your needs. As a recommended practice, carefully review any materials from this repository before you use them on any live systems.

Pre Validation Check Scripts

There are minimum requirements for migrating an existing guest machine image to IBM Cloud VPC as a custom image. The image must:

• Contain a single file or volume.
• Be in qcow2 format and have .qcow2 file extension.
• Be cloud-init enabled.
• Use an operating system that is supported as a stock image operating system.

For more information about managing images, see link.

Use these custom scripts to validate the candidate guest machine.

OS Precheck Scripts

Data Migration

There are many tools available to migrate data from the source to the target machine. This script uses an open source utility rsync with the some default commands.

rysnc script

DB Migration

• MySQL

  Script based tool to assist with mysql db migration between 2 servers. The script logs into the source and initiate mysqldump utility and copies it to a COS. Target server copies it from the COS and restores the backup db.

• MSSQL

  This is a post-script for clustered MSSQL migration with the Rackware RMM tool that addresses domain joins for the new target MSSQL clusters.

Image Conversion

When migrating from an ESXi hypervisor, the image needs to be in qcow2. This script converts guest images from Vmware in vdmk format to qcow2.

image conversion

Server Migration

If you are migrating from vmware vmdk or IBM Cloud Classic, these script will helpful for migration automation of pre-checks, image conversion, custom image creation and auto-provision target server into IBM Cloud VPC .

Server Migration

Discovering the VMware guest virtual machines

This script is a complementary tool to RackWare RMM migration tool. The script discovers virtual machines on ESXi hypervisor and creates wave on the Rackware RMM server.

VMWare discovery tool

Discovering the Hyper-V guest virtual machines

This script is a complementary tool to RackWare RMM migration tool. The script discovers guest machines on Windows hypervisor and creates wave on the Rackware RMM server.

Hyper-V discovery tool

Suggestion/Issues

While there are no warranties of any kind, and there is no service or technical support available for these scripts from IBM support, your comments are welcomed by the maintainers and developers, who reserve the right to revise or remove the tools at any time. We, maintainers and developers, will support the scripts posted in this repository. To report problems, provide suggestions or comments, please open a GitHub issue. If the scripts are modified and have issues, we will do our best to assist.