Migrate GigaVUE-VM on ESXi to GigaVUE V Series on ESXi

This section provides the information to migrate your GigaVUE-VM based visibility solution on ESXi to the GigaVUE V Series based solution without changing underlying ESXi platform

The following are the benefits of the recommended migration procedures:

  • You need not migrate the entire fleet of GigaVUE-VMs to GigaVUE V Series all at once. The migration can be done one host at a time or one group of hosts at a time while the rest of hosts continue to be monitored using GigaVUE-VM to minimize risk and disturbance to production environment.
  • Least interruption to the visibility of your hosts during the migration process.

Prerequisites

Before starting the migration ensure the following items:

  • Ensure that you have backed-up your system to recover the configuration on migration failures.
  • Ensure that your GigaVUE-FM version is 5.16.00 or above to manage both GigaVUE-VM and GigaVUE V Series based solutions.
  • Ensure that you have deployed GigaVUE-VM-based visibility solution on your ESXi platform (without any NSX layer).
    Refer to Configure GigaVUE-VM on ESXi chapter in the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide for detailed information on how to configure GigaVUE-VM visibility solution on VMware ESXi.

To migrate the first ESXi host or the first group of hosts:

  1. In your vSphere Client, identify an IP address of the host(s) to migrate.
  2. In GigaVUE-FM, configure GigaVUE V Series visibility solution on your ESXi platform with the identified host(s).
    1. Create a monitoring domain with the identified host(s). Refer to Connect to VMware vCenter topic in the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guidefor detailed information.
    2. Deploy GigaVUE V Series node on each of the targeted hosts. Refer to VMware Fabric Launch Configuration topic in the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide topic for detailed information.
    3. Create a monitoring session with specification matching the logic of Virtual Maps that are already deployed in your existing GigaVUE-VM solution. Refer to Configure Monitoring Session topic in the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware—GigaVUE V Series Guide for detailed information.

      Note:  Click OK and save the monitoring session. Don't deploy the monitoring session.

  3. In GigaVUE-FM, from your existing GigaVUE-VM visibility solution, undeploy the GigaVUE-VMs from the targeted host(s).
    Navigate to Inventory > VIRTUAL > VMware > vCenter > Virtual Nodes and in the Virtual Nodes page, select the GigaVUE-VM deployed host(s) and click Delete.
  4. In GigaVUE-FM, navigate to the monitoring session page of your GigaVUE V Series solution and click Deploy.

The above procedure assumes that there is sufficient resource on your VMware hosts to allow GigaVUE V Series node deployed along with your existing GigaVUE-VM.

If there are not sufficient resources on your hosts, you can directly deploy your GigaVUE V Series monitoring session and then undeploy the GigaVUE-VM solution. But there will be a longer traffic interruption.

Once the initial monitoring domain is created, do the following to migrate the subsequent groups of hosts:

  1. In your vSphere Client, identify all the required hosts to migrate.
  2. In GigaVUE-FM, edit the existing VMware Monitoring Domain and add the targeted hosts.
  3. From your existing GigaVUE-VM solution, undeploy the GigaVUE-VMs from the targeted host(s).
  4. Navigate to the monitoring session page of your GigaVUE V Series solution and click Deploy.

Note:  Monitoring session automatically deploys into these new GigaVUE V Series nodes if the VMs on these hosts match the ATS criteria.