Skip to main content

Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.xloud.tech/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

XMS (Xloud Migration Suite) moves virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere and standalone ESXi hosts into Xloud with no agent installed in the source guest. Cold migrations power off the source VM and stream its disks in a single pass; warm migrations perform an online full sync followed by incremental block-level replication, keeping cutover downtime to minutes.

XMS — Migration Suite

Contact the Xloud team for XMS planning, sizing, and licensing

​
XMS Documentation

User Guide

Register VMware sources, discover workloads, run preflight checks, and execute cold or warm migrations from the Xloud Dashboard.

Admin Guide

Deploy the migration service, configure network access to vCenter and ESXi, plan storage capacity, and manage credentials for production migrations.

CLI Reference

Available command-line workflows and the scope of Dashboard-only operations.

Block Storage

Target volumes are provisioned through Xloud Block Storage — review volume types, capacity, and quotas before planning a migration wave.

​
Key Capabilities

Xloud-Developed — XMS is developed by Xloud and ships with XAVS / XPCI.

Agentless Source Access

Connects to vCenter or standalone ESXi over the standard vSphere API. No agent is installed inside the source guest and no changes are made to the source VM before cutover.

Cold and Warm Migration

Choose single-pass cold migration for powered-off workloads or warm migration with Changed Block Tracking for workloads that must stay online until the cutover window.

Automatic Guest Conversion

VirtIO driver injection, boot loader repair, and removal of hypervisor-specific tooling are applied offline against the target volume — no manual guest preparation on the source side.

Preflight Assessment

Pre-migration compatibility checks for OS family, firmware type, disk layout, and driver support. Risks are surfaced before the job starts.

Incremental Cutover

Warm migration repeatedly syncs only changed blocks since the last sync using Changed Block Tracking. The final cutover replicates a minimal delta and switches the workload to Xloud.

End-to-End Dashboard

Discovery, assessment, job submission, live progress, event streaming, and post-migration reports are all available from the Migration panel in the Xloud Dashboard.

​
Migration Workflow

Register a VMware source

Add a vCenter or ESXi endpoint to the Migration panel with the hostname, port, credentials, and optional datacenter scope.

Discover workloads

XMS inventories all reachable VMs, disks, networks, and guest metadata through the vSphere API. No agent is installed in the source guest.

Run preflight

Each candidate workload is scored for OS support, firmware type, disk layout, and driver availability. Blocking issues are surfaced before scheduling a migration.

Submit migration

Choose cold (single-pass) or warm (continuous sync) mode, pick the target Xloud project, network, and volume type, and queue the job.

Sync and cutover

Cold migrations run end-to-end immediately. Warm migrations complete a full sync and then incrementally replicate until you trigger cutover.

Guest conversion and boot

XMS injects VirtIO drivers, repairs the boot loader, and launches the migrated instance in the target Xloud project.

​
Supported VMware Environments

vCenter Server

Connect to vCenter to discover and migrate VMs across all managed clusters and hosts from a single source entry.

Standalone ESXi

Connect directly to an individual ESXi host for smaller deployments or edge sites that do not run vCenter.

vSphere 6.x – 8.x

Covers vSphere 6.0 through 8.0. The migration service bundles disk transport libraries for each supported generation.

BIOS and UEFI Guests

Both BIOS and UEFI guests migrate to Xloud without firmware-specific preparation. Secure Boot status is detected during discovery.

Xloud Compute

Migrated workloads run as Xloud Compute instances with full lifecycle and scaling features.

Block Storage

Target disks land as Xloud Block Storage volumes. Choose volume types to place migrated workloads on the correct storage tier.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitor migrated workloads with XIMP dashboards, metrics, and alerting.