Cross-Cluster Migrations

Zilliz Cloud allows you to seamlessly transfer data from a serverless cluster to a dedicated cluster or between two Dedicated clusters.

By migrating between clusters, you can modify your cluster type, region, and scale down your cluster at ease, without interrupting your business on the original cluster.

📘Notes

• Ensure your payment method is set up to access this feature.

• Migration between two Dedicated clusters will incur charges. For more details, refer to Understand Cost.

From serverless to dedicated cluster

Dedicated clusters offer a dedicated environment and resources, enabling processing larger datasets with improved performance. Dedicated clusters also provide additional advanced features such as backup and restore, IP address access control, and private networking. Consider transitioning your business from a serverless cluster to a dedicated cluster for these added benefits.

1. Navigate to the Migrations tab of a serverless cluster. On the Cross-Cluster Data Migration card, choose Migrate > To a New Dedicated Cluster.

2. In the dialogue box,

   1. Configure the new dedicated cluster by setting the project, cluster name, cloud provider settings, and CU settings.

   2. Verify the information of the new cluster.

   3. Click Migrate to proceed.

3. A migration job will be generated. You can view the migration progress on the Jobs page. When the job status changes from IN PROGRESS to SUCCESSFUL, the data migration is complete.

4. Click ... under the Actions column of this migration job to view the details of the migrated collection.

From dedicated to another dedicated cluster

On Zilliz Cloud, you can either migrate your dedicated cluster to a new or existing dedicated cluster.

By migrating to a new dedicated clusters, you can modify your cluster type, region, and scale down your cluster at ease, without interrupting your business on the original cluster.

By migrating to an existing dedicated cluster, you can effectively combine cluster resources.

📘Notes

• This feature is only accessible to users on the Dedicated (Standard) or Dedicated (Enterprise) plans.

From a dedicated cluster to a new one

You can make use of the migration between clusters to change the CU settings for your data.

1. Navigate to the Migrations tab of a dedicated cluster. On the Cross-Cluster Data Migration card, choose Migrate > To a New Dedicated Cluster.

2. In the dialogue box,

   1. Configure the new cluster by setting the project, cluster name, cloud provider settings, and CU settings.

   2. Verify the information of the new cluster.

   3. Click Migrate to proceed.

3. A migration job will be generated. You can view the migration progress on the Jobs page. When the job status changes from IN PROGRESS to SUCCESSFUL, the data migration is complete.

   

4. Click ... under the Actions column of this migration job to view the details of the migrated collection.

   

Between two existing dedicated cluster

📘Notes

• Before migrating between two existing dedicated clusters, please ensure the two clusters are compatible with the same Milvus version.

1. Navigate to the Migrations tab of a dedicated cluster. On the Cross-Cluster Data Migration card, choose Migrate > To an Existing Dedicated Cluster.

2. In the dialogue box,

   1. Select the source collections in the current cluster.

   2. Select your Target Project and Target Cluster.

   3. Verify the information of the target cluster.

   4. Click Migrate to proceed.

3. A migration job will be generated. You can view the migration progress on the Jobs page. When the job status changes from IN PROGRESS to SUCCESSFUL, the data migration is complete.

4. Click ... under the Actions column of this migration job to view the details of the migrated collection.

   

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