Custom Migration Overview
Illumio provides the pcemigrate tool to help you migrate from the on-premise (on-prem) PCE to the SaaS PCE.
This guide describes how to use this tool to migrate, the steps involved, and the limitations.
Caution
This migration requires collaboration with Illumio.
In this migration, bulk VEN transplant is used. This eliminates the need to unpair and repair.
About the pcemigrate Tool
The pcemigrate tool provides the following functionality.
The tool orchestrates the initial replication of policy objects and some selected management objects from the on-premises PCE to the Illumio SaaS instance.
It migrates VENs in batches from the on-prem PCE to the Illumio Cloud instance.
It synchronizes policy changes and workload changes between the on-prem PCE and Illumio Cloud during the VEN migration.
You can run the pcemigrate tool on a machine running Linux (recommended by Illumio), Windows, or macOS. You must be able to access both the on-prem PCE and SaaS from the machine using the Illumio public API.
Important
Illumio recommends that you run the pcemigrate tool on a separate machine.
However, you can also run pcemigrate directly from the on-prem PCE if you can access SaaS from it.