Installing Forklift by using the OKD web console

You can install Forklift by using the OKD web console.

• VMware vSphere 6.5 or later.

• OKD 4.7 installed.

• KubeVirt Operator installed.

• You must be logged in as a user with cluster-admin permissions.

• If you are performing more than 10 concurrent migrations from a single ESXi host, you must increase the NFC service memory of the host.

• VMware virtual machines:

  • VMware Tools installed.

  • ISO/CDROM disks unmounted.

  • NIC with no more than one IPv4 and/or one IPv6 address.

  • VM name containing only lowercase letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), or hyphens (-), up to a maximum of 253 characters. The first and last characters must be alphanumeric. The name must not contain uppercase letters, spaces, periods (.), or special characters.

  • VM name that does not duplicate the name of a virtual machine in the KubeVirt environment.

  • Operating system certified and supported for use as a guest operating system with KubeVirt and for conversion to KVM with virt-v2v.

• Network:

  • IP addresses, VLANs, and other network configuration settings must not be changed before or after migration. The MAC addresses of the virtual machines are preserved during migration.

  • Uninterrupted and reliable network connections between the clusters and the replication repository.

  • Network ports enabled in the firewall rules.

Table 1. Network ports required for migration

Port	Protocol	Source	Destination	Purpose
443	TCP	OpenShift nodes	VMware vCenter	VMware provider inventory Disk transfer authentication
443	TCP	OpenShift nodes	VMware ESXi hosts	Disk transfer authentication
902	TCP	OpenShift nodes	VMware ESXi hosts	Disk transfer data copy

Procedure

1. In the OKD web console, navigate to Operators → OperatorHub.

2. Use the Filter by keyword field to search for forklift-operator.

   Note	The Forklift Operator is a Community Operator. Red Hat does not support Community Operators.

3. Click the Forklift Operator and then click Install.

4. On the Install Operator page, click Install.

5. Click Operators → Installed Operators to verify that the Forklift Operator appears in the konveyor-forklift project with the status Succeeded.

6. Click the Forklift Operator.

7. Under Provided APIs, locate the ForkliftController, and click Create Instance.

8. Click Create.

9. Click Workloads → Pods to verify that the Forklift pods are running.