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Start-VBRvCloudQuickMigration

Short Description

Starts a quick migration of vCloud VMs.

Applies to

Platform: VMware, Hyper-V

Product Edition: Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Syntax

Start-VBRvCloudQuickMigration -InstantRecovery <InstantRecoveryObject> [-StorageProfile <CVcdOrgVdcStorageProfile>] [-vCloudDatastore <CVcdDatastoreRestoreInfo>] [-RunAsync]  [<CommonParameters>]

Detailed Description

This cmdlet starts a quick migration of vCloud VMs.

Start-VBRvCloudQuickMigration Note:

To perform a quick migration of vCloud VMs you must run an instant recovery of  the necessary vCloud VMs beforehand. Run Start-VBRvCloudInstantRecovery to perform an instant recovery of  the necessary vCloud VMs.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

Required

Position

Accept
Pipeline
Input

Accept
Wildcard
Characters

InstantRecovery

Specifies the vCloud VM that you want to migrate.

Accepts the InstantRecoveryObject type.

True

Named

True (ByValue,
ByPropertyName)

False

StorageProfile

Specifies the storage policy of the selected vCloud VM that is restored to the original location.

NOTE: the cmdlet won`t restore the storage policy of vCloud VMs in case you restore them to the different location.

Accepts the CVcdOrgVdcStorageProfile type.

False

Named

False

False

vCloudDatastore

Specifies the vCloud datastore. Veeam Backup & Replication will move the vCloud VM data to the selected vCloud datastore.

Accepts the CVcdDatastoreRestoreInfo type.

False

Named

False

False

RunAsync

Indicates that the command returns immediately without waiting for the task to complete.

False

Named

False

False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see the About CommonParameters section of Microsoft Docs.

.

Return Type

Example

This example shows how to start quick migration of the vCloud VM.

  1. Run Get-VBRRestorePoint to get the array of the restore points for the selected VM. Save the result to the $restorepoint variable.
  2. Run Start-VBRvCloudInstantRecovery with the $restorepoint variable. Save the result to the $VM variable.
  3. Run Start-VBRvCloudQuickMigration with the $VM variable.

$restorepoint = Get-VBRRestorePoint

$VM = Start-VBRvCloudInstantRecovery -RestorePoint $restorepoint[1]

Start-VBRvCloudQuickMigration -InstantRecovery $VM

Related Commands

Get-VBRRestorePoint

Start-VBRvCloudInstantRecovery