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Method: projects.locations.sources.migratingVms.startMigration
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Starts migration for a VM. Starts the process of uploading data and creating snapshots, in replication cycles scheduled by the policy.
HTTP request
POST https://vmmigration.googleapis.com/v1/{migratingVm=projects/*/locations/*/sources/*/migratingVms/*}:startMigration
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
Parameters
migratingVm
string
Required. The name of the MigratingVm.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource migratingVm
:
vmmigration.migratingVms.update
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation
.
Authorization Scopes
Requires the following OAuth scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
For more information, see the Authentication Overview .
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Last updated 2022-12-11 UTC.
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