Migration planning for bulk copy based migration transfers using heuristics based predictions

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions for predicting data replication process durations for virtual computing instance migrations between computing environments, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:

• collecting migration metrics during the data replication processes of migrations of virtual computing instances from source computing environments to destination computing environments;
• training at least one model for predicting data replication process durations for future migrations of virtual computing instances using at least some of the migration metrics;
• in response to a prediction request for a migration, deploying a plurality of predictors for the migration;
• and
• generating a prediction of a data replication process duration for the migration by the predictors using at least one trained model, wherein the prediction is used to anticipate when a data replication process of the migration will complete.

A system comprising:

• memory;
• and
• one or more processors configured to:
• collect migration metrics during data replication processes of migrations of virtual computing instances from source computing environments to destination computing environments;
• train at least one model for predicting data replication durations for future migrations of virtual computing instances using at least some of the migration metrics;
• in response to a prediction request for a migration, deploy a plurality of predictors for the migration;
• and
• generate a prediction of a data replication process duration for the migration by the predictors using at least one trained model, wherein the prediction is used to anticipate when a data replication process of the migration will complete.