How to migrate virtual machines to a group of commissioning to the other without any impact on the functioning
Hello
I'm not able to migrate VMs who resided originally in a Provisioning group but now must pass on the other wanted to change depending on the user and roles, but do not want to expose two commissioning groups to the user.
I was able to change the VM but don't see change not all groups options.
Please help find a way to do this.
BR,
MG
VCAC 6 I know that you can migrate between the reserves, but I don't remember if it was a function of 5.2 as well (I've not used for about a year now). If all goes well it gives you somewhere to start.
Grant
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