How to move data volume between VMs using connectVM CLI on connectVM Cloud[🔗](#how-to-move-data-volume-between-vms-using-connectVM-cli-on-brand-name "Permalink to this headline")
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Volumes are used to store data and those data can be accessed from a virtual machine to which the volume is attached. To access data stored on a volume from another virtual machine, you need to disconnect that volume from virtual machine to which it is currently connected, and connect it to another instance.

This article uses connectVM CLI client to transfer volumes between virtual machines which are in the same project.

Prerequisites[🔗](#prerequisites "Permalink to this headline")
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No. 1 **Hosting**

You need a connectVM Cloud hosting account with Horizon interface <https://console.connectvm.com/>.

No. 2 **connectVM CLI client**

To be able to use the connectVM CLI client, you need to have it installed. One of these articles should help: