AWS Administration: Migrating Virtual Machines

Course details

Understanding how to successfully carry out migration of existing workloads is a crucial step for cloud admins. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Server Migration Service for quickly migrating thousands of workloads to the cloud. In this course, instructor Brien Posey begins with an introduction to the benefits and limitations of AWS Server Migration Service and the basic requirements for both Linux and Windows virtual machine (VM) migrations. From there, he leads you through three hands-on demonstrations covering migration of VMware, Hyper-V, and Azure virtual machines. The course concludes with instructions for replicating VMware, Hyper-V, and Azure VMs and creating EC2 instances from the replicated VMs.

Topics include:
Benefits and limitations of AWS Server Migration Service
VM migration requirements
Creating the Server Migration Connector VM
Configuring VM network settings
Configuring a VMware connector
Configuring a Hyper-V connector
Configuring an Azure connector
Managing replication jobs

Concepts

Introduction

VM migration in AWS
What you should know

AWS Server Migration Service

An introduction to AWS Server Migration Service
AWS Server Migration Service benefits
Basic AWS Server Migration Service limitations

Migration Limitations and Requirements

VM migration requirements
Windows VM migration requirements
Linux VM migration requirements
Basic VM migration limitations
VM licensing impacts

VMware Migrations

Install the AWS Server Migration Connector on VMware
VMware connector requirements
Downloading the AWS Server Migration Connector
Creating the AWS Server Migration Connector VM
Configure VM network settings
Testing the VM's network settings
Create the service account
Configure the VMware connector

Hyper-V Migrations

Hyper-V connector requirements
Creating a service account
Download the Server Migration Connector
Create the Server Migration Connector VM
Configure the VM's IP address
Perform a communications test
Download the Hyper-V configuration script
Run the configuration script
Configure the Hyper-V connector
Replicate a Hyper-V VM

Azure Migrations

Azure migration requirements
Download the connector installation script
Gather the required information
Deploy the Azure connector
Configure the Azure connector
Replicate an Azure VM

The Replication Process

Troubleshoot the connector
Monitor a replication job
Delete a replication job
Create an EC2 instance from a replicated VM

Conclusion

Next steps