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Registering destination clusters

As you are migrating from CDH or Cloudera Base on premises to Cloudera on cloud, you need to register the Cloudera cluster on cloud as a destination to which the data, metadata, and workload will be migrated.

Note down the following information about the Cloudera cluster on cloud to complete the registration:
  • Access key and private key

    For more information about how to generate access and private key, see the Generating an API access key documentation.

  • SSH user, port, and private key
  1. Click See More > Register A New Destination on the homepage of Cloudera Migration Assistant to register a cluster that will be used as a source for the migration.

    Alternatively, you can open the New Cluster wizard by selecting Clusters on the left navigation pane, and clicking New > Destination.

  2. Select Cloudera on cloud as Target Type.
  3. Select the Control Plane URL where the cluster is located.
  4. Provide the Access Key and Private Key of your Cloudera user account.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Choose the cluster based on the Cluster Name that you want to use for the migration.
    The drop-down list contains all of the existing clusters in Cloudera on cloud that you have access to.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Select the Configuration Preference based on which authentication method you prefer.
    • Choose Use existing if you want to use the SSH configuration and keys of the user running Cloudera Migration Assistant server to access the hosts.
    • Choose New if you want to use a newly provided SSH key to configure Ansible automatically.
      1. Provide the SSH User and SSH Port.
      2. Copy the SSH Key to the SSH Key box or upload a .pem file containing the key.
      3. If you want to use Password, provide the password and make sure the sshpass utility is installed.
  9. Provide the following information based on the cloud provider of your cluster:
    • S3: S3 Bucket Access Key and S3 Bucket Secret Key
    • ABFS: Client Id, Client Secret Key and Tenant Id
  10. Click Create.
The registered Cloudera cluster on cloud is listed on the Clusters page.
You can review the details and services of the cluster by clicking on the Name of the cluster.
Start the migration from CDH or Cloudera Base on premises to Cloudera on cloud.