15.2 Planning for Migration to VMs on Citrix XenServer

Ensure that your Citrix XenServer environment meets the following prerequisites for migration to VMs on Citrix XenServer:

  • Use PlateSpin Migrate Client to migrate workloads to virtual machine on Citrix XenServer virtual hosts. PlateSpin Migrate Web Interface does not support migration to XenServer virtual hosts.

  • You can use Citrix XenServer as the target virtualization platform in a semi-automated workload migration.

  • Your target must be a fully virtualized (not paravirtualized) VM.

  • Your source workload must be supported by PlateSpin Migrate and Citrix XenServer.

    See Citrix XenServer in Table 2-12, Supported Target Virtualization Platforms for the Migrate Client Only.

  • Your network environment must meet the requirements for access, discovery, and migration described in Access and Communication Requirements across Your Migration Network.

  • Configure volumes on the target disks with about 50 MB of additional storage space than the source disks.

For information about configuring semi-automated migration to a virtual machine on XenServer, see Migration to Virtual Machines on Citrix XenServer.