Migrations

Vapor provides migration utilities to help you move existing virtual machines into the Cockpit platform. The migration tools preserve virtual machine configurations, virtual disks, and guest state whenever supported by the source platform.

Available Migration Guides

The following migration scenarios are currently supported:

• CEP (KubeVirt) to Cockpit — Live-copy virtual machines from a KubeVirt cluster into Cockpit using the kvirt2virt migration utility.
• VMware to Cockpit — Migrate virtual machines from VMware environments into Cockpit.

Each guide contains platform-specific prerequisites, migration procedures, and post-migration validation steps.

Migration Methods

Depending on the migration tool, you can perform migrations using one or more of the following methods:

• Directly from the host operating system.
• Inside a Docker container.
• Through the Vapor Web UI (when supported).

Before You Begin

Before starting any migration, make sure that:

• The source environment is accessible from the Cockpit host.
• Required network connectivity is available.
• The destination host has sufficient storage capacity.
• You have administrator privileges on both the source and destination platforms.
• A backup of critical virtual machines has been created before migration.