Vinchin is one of the easiest solution to migrate on-premise VM to public cloud. You can easily migrate 15+ kinds of VMs to AWS and Huawei Cloud according to your needs. The general process includes backing up the on-premise VM and then directly restore it on the public cloud.

Supported Platform:

Vinchin currently supports V2C migration for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, oVirt, OLVM, RHV, Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer), XCP-ng, ZStack, OpenStack, Sangfor HCI, H3C CAS/UIS, Huawei FusionCompute, AWS EC2, Huawei ECS, etc.

Installation & Configuration

You can get the installation package on the download page and then install it on a virtual machine or physical machine.

After that, upload the license that we send to you in the email.

Add backup storage before creating a migration job.

Host Adding:

You need to add both platforms to the backup system for later migration.

You can add the on-premise host and the cloud platform with their credentials. Some of the virtualization platforms requires Vinchin plugin installed on them. You can refer to our HelpCenter.

Backup the on-premise VM:

First, you need to backup the source on-premise VM in 4 steps.

Select the cloud instance you want to backup.
Choose backup storage.
Set the backup policy.
Submit the task.

Restore the instance to the target public cloud:

Then you can use the backup data to migrate the on-premise VM to target public cloud.

Select the created backup data
Select the target host
Select strategies or just skip it
Submit the job

Demonstration:

For the detailed steps, you can also refer to this video which takes VMware to AWS migration as an example:

If you still have questions after referring to our documentations and videos, please start a thread in this section or contact our technical support team at customer.service@vinchin.com for assistance.