Migrating from the Commercial to Cisco Meraki for Government

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Overview

If you are an existing Cisco Meraki customer and wish to migrate your network or parts of your network to Cisco Meraki for Government please follow the steps below:

Process

Step	Description
1	Validate Hardware Compliance \| Cisco Meraki for Government does not support all available Cisco hardware. Use this page to validate that you are migrating supported hardware. If your hardware is not supported, you will need to upgrade or replace them. Ensure that when you purchase new hardware you purchase FedRAMP Moderate versions of the associated software licenses.
2	Create New Organization \| Contact your account executive and ask them to create a new organization for you within Cisco Meraki for Government. For them to do this you will need to have at least one order with a FedRAMP Moderate license.
3	Migrate Configuration Information \| Manually copy or use APIs to migrate information from your commercial cloud to their new Cisco Meraki for Government organization.
4	Migrate Hardware \| Unclaim the hardware you are moving from your commercial cloud and then reclaim them in their Cisco Meraki for Government organization.
5	Migrate Licenses \| If your existing commercial licenses have more than six months remaining you can migrate them to Cisco Meraki for Government. Doing so will reduce the remaining time on the licenses by 20% to account for the increase costs of the FedRAMP Moderate cloud. To migrate your licenses, contact your Account Executive and ask them to open a new case with Cisco Meraki support.

If you have any issues during this process please reach out to your Account Executive or Meraki Support for assistance.

Step	Description
1	Validate Hardware Compliance \| Cisco Meraki for Government does not support all available Cisco hardware. Use this page to validate that you are migrating supported hardware. If your hardware is not supported, you will need to upgrade or replace them. Ensure that when you purchase new hardware you purchase FedRAMP Moderate versions of the associated software licenses.
2	Create New Organization \| Contact your account executive and ask them to create a new organization for you within Cisco Meraki for Government. For them to do this you will need to have at least one order with a FedRAMP Moderate license.
3	Migrate Configuration Information \| Manually copy or use APIs to migrate information from your commercial cloud to their new Cisco Meraki for Government organization.
4	Migrate Hardware \| Unclaim the hardware you are moving from your commercial cloud and then reclaim them in their Cisco Meraki for Government organization.
5	Migrate Licenses \| If your existing commercial licenses have more than six months remaining you can migrate them to Cisco Meraki for Government. Doing so will reduce the remaining time on the licenses by 20% to account for the increase costs of the FedRAMP Moderate cloud. To migrate your licenses, contact your Account Executive and ask them to open a new case with Cisco Meraki support.