{{ $t('productDocDetail.updateTime') }}: 2025-12-17

Here is the guidance how to migrate the VM via SCMT Point-to-Point agent-based method.

Prerequisite:

1. Verifying that the source business system is operating normally.

2. SCMT has deployed and been licensed.
3. Checking that sufficient residual resources are available to install the migration agent.
4. You have the knowledage with point to point agentbased migration and familiar with the key considerations.
5. Examining the network connectivity between the migration source and destination. You can find the port requirements here.
6. Assessing the health status of the target HCI platform environment.
7. OS type of the host to be migrated: Verify whether it is listed in the tool compatibility list.

Source Machine Preparation

Windows Agent

Step 1.Log in to SCMT using created account, go to Download, click Windows machines (x86 32/64-Bit).

Step 2.It provides Actively Connected Agent, and Passively Connected Agent to download, select the agent based on network conditions, and click the Download.

Step 3.Wait for the download link to be generated, use the provide download link to download the agent. You can download it within the VM to be migrated, or you can download it in another PC and then transmit it to the VM to be migrated.

Step 4.The download agent file is a zip file, you need to unzip it first. After unzipping it, click the setup to launch the agent install process.

Step 5.Click the Install, and waiting for the installation process to be completed.

Linux Agent

Step 1.Log in to SCMT using created account, go to Download, click Linux machine (x86 64-Bit) or Linux client (x86 32-Bit) based on the OS of the VM to be migrated is 32 or 64 Bit. No matter 32 or 64 Bit the following steps are the same.

Step 2.It provides actively connected agent, and passively connected agent to download, select the agent based on network conditions, click the Download.

Step 3.Wait for the download link to be generated, use the provide download link download the agent.

After the download link generated, download the agent. You can either download it directly within the VM to be migrated, or download it to another PC first and then transfer it to the target VM.

 When you download the agent install file do not forget the parameter –-no-check-certificate.

Step 4.After the agent installation file has been downloaded, authorize it using following command:

chmod +x [agent_installation_ file]

Step 5.Once authorized, run the command to install the agent and wait for the installation to finish.

./[agent_installation_ file]

Create Migration Task

Step 1.Log in to SCMT using created account,  go to Migration, click Create.

Step 2.Fill in the name of the migration job, keep the Group value as default.

In left Source section, select Agent-Base Machines for the Type, the name is the source VM to be migrated, you can click the button to select the VM that has installed the agent.

In the right Destination section, select the Agentless Machine (VM Create by Virtualization Platform), then select the HCI cluster. In the second line, enter the VM name (This will be the name that SCMT creates in the HCI cluster), then click Next.

Step 3.Keep the Sync Parameters and Advanced Parameters as the default. Disk Mapping you can select which datastore the VM runs on after migration.

Step 4.keep the Failover Settings as default.

In the right-side Destination section, select Virto for the the New NIC, you can choose which port group or virtual switch to connect to in HCI virtual topology by clicking button. Keep the Network Name as default. After migrating VM to Sangfor, the VM’s IP address will keep the same, click the  button can add one more IP in one NIC if needed. Keep the global configuration as default if the information is correct. Then click Next.

After the task created success, SCMT will automatically create a destination VM in HCI and will boot it from Bare Metal Recovery PE. If the destination VM created by SCMT cannot get IP from DHCP server or the IP get from DHCP server cannot communicate with SCMT, you must configure the suitable IP for the destination VM after the migration task is created.

Step 5.Select the HCI VM Group, confirm all other configurations are correct then click Finish.

Click OK when Job created successfully message appears.

Step 6.After the migration task create successfully. Go to the Migration, you can see the newly created migration task. The status is Initializing the job.

You can click the Logs button to check the job’s detail information.

Configure Destination VM and Sync Data

Step 1.When the migration job’s status is Creating and connecting to the VM, and the Logs shows the Destination is powered on, log in to HCI cluster, go to Compute and locate the VM created by SCMT, click Console.

Step 2.Access the Console, you can see the VM boot from Bare Metal Recovery PE. You can select Automatically obtain the IP address so that the PE system to obtain an IP from DHCP server (ensure this IP can communicate with SCMT and the source VM), or you can select Use the following IP address to set the IP address manually. Click Reconnect.

Please ensure that the destination VM can communicate with SCMP and source machine.

Step 3.Wait for the IP address initiation completed, when the process reaches Ongoing: Wait for admin input, it means the IP address initiation successfully.

Step 4.Log in to SCMT using created account, if the network is functioning properly, you can see the task status is Checking for synchronization, then change to Synchronizing data after a while.

Fail Over

Step 1.Wait for the task status reaches Synchronization succeeded. Waiting for the next synchronization, click Sync and Fail Over.

Step 2.Click Next in the pop-up window.

Step 3.Select Disconnect Network under the Select the source operation before failover, select Power On under the Select the destination status after failover (recommended if customer no other require), then click OK.

This operation will disconnect network of source machine, please perform it only during periods when business operations are permitted.

Step 4.Click OK after Sync Now and Fail Over operation Successful message appears.

Step 5.When the task reaches Failing over: Waiting for dest host online, log in to HCI and open the VM console to confirm the destination VM power on normally (need wait a while here). If the VM works normally after check, then click Verification Successful under SCMT migration task.

Step 6.Click OK after Verification Successful setting Completed message appears, the SCMT point to point agent-less migration task is completed.