RackWare Cloud Migration
Generated on 6 Jun 2022 from the RackWare Cloud Migration catalog page
RackWare Cloud Motion is a fully-automated enterprise-grade Migration solution that enables seamless migration of any Linux server from any source (datacenter or other cloud) into Digital Ocean Cloud.
Software Included
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Creating an App using the Control Panel
Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.
Creating an App using the API
In addition to creating a Droplet from the RackWare Cloud Migration 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB RackWare Cloud Migration Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl
command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
'{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "rackware-rackwarecloudmig"}' \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
Getting Started After Deploying RackWare Cloud Migration
1. Configure RMM instance
a. Login through ssh to your RMM Instance
i. Connect with user root and ssh key supplied during launch of the droplet instance.
ii. All RMM operations must be executed as root.
iii. $sudo su -
b. Create the admin GUI user account
i. # useradd admin
ii. Set the password, use a strong password
iii. #passwd admin
c. Generate new ssh key
i. # ssh-keygen -t rsa
ii. accept defaults and leave passphrase empty
Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
2. Login to the RackWare RMM GUI
a. Open a Chrome or Firefox browser.
i. https://<rmm_ip>
ii. Username: admin
iii. Password: <this password you created from step 1b.
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