Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV)

Sangfor HCI and aSV provide a unified infrastructure combining compute, storage, networking, and built-in security to simplify deployment, operations, and services.
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Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV) {{ breadTitle }} User Manual HCI Platform Configuration Guide VMware Management Migrating VMware Virtual Machines
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Migrating VMware Virtual Machines

{{ $t('productDocDetail.updateTime') }}: 2026-01-05

Description

The HCI platform supports migrating the virtual machine of the VMware vCenter to its platform for running. It can be migrated in the power-on state, and the virtual machine of the VMware vCenter can be turned off in the final stage to complete the migration.

Precautions

  1. If a VMware virtual machine migrated to HCI is back to VMware, the vmTools need to be uninstalled. The Sangfor vmTools will disable VMware's VMtools.
  1. In Centos 7.0, 7.1, and earlier versions, after P2V migration of a virtual machine in the form of EFI firmware on the VMware platform to the HCI platform, the target virtual machine starts for the first time. Still, it may enter the EFI shell for the second boot. It can be solved by restarting.
  2. When a VMware virtual machine is migrated to the HCI platform, the vmTools will be installed automatically.
  3. Supported VMware versions:

VMware 5.0, VMware 5.1, VMware 5.5, VMware 6.0, VMware 6.5.

aCloud 5.8.7 R1 and later supports VMware 6.7.

  1. If the migration is canceled during the migration process, HCI will not delete the migrated virtual machine. The virtual machine can be viewed under Compute and needs to be deleted manually.

Prerequisites

None.

Steps

  1. Find the virtual machine that needs to be migrated to the HCI platform in Compute > VMware vCenter, and select Migrate to Sangfor HCI.

  1. Configure migration information such as Name, Group, and Datastore.

  1. Click Next to enter the virtual machine hardware configuration after migration, which supports the configuration of NIC connection, Adapter Model, MAC address, IP address, etc. If the IP of the original VMware virtual machine has been configured, the relevant information will be automatically configured. If the IP of the VMware virtual machine is not configured, you need to configure it manually.

  1. After the configuration is done, click Confirm to start the migration.