Simulating VM migration

Migrating servers to the cloud is an activity that most enterprises have been engaged with since the dawn of the public cloud. Rehost and refactor are two of the five migration strategies detailed by Gartner that are pertinent for server migration. In this recipe, we'll simulate a rehost of a server. We'll migrate a virtual machine from one project/organization to another manually in order to understand an instance's migration.

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