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

0. Introduction

01 - VM migration in AWS
02 - What you should know

1. AWS Server Migration Service

03 - An introduction to AWS Server Migration Service
04 - AWS Server Migration Service benefits
05 - Basic AWS Server Migration Service limitations

2. Migration Limitations and Requirements

06 - VM migration requirements
07 - Windows VM migration requirements
08 - Linux VM migration requirements
09 - Basic VM migration limitations
10 - VM licensing impacts

3. VMware Migrations

11 - Install the AWS Server Migration Connector on VMware
12 - VMware connector requirements
13 - Downloading the AWS Server Migration Connector
14 - Creating the AWS Server Migration Connector VM
15 - Configure VM network settings
16 - Testing the VM's network settings
17 - Create the service account
18 - Configure the VMware connector

4. Hyper-V Migrations

19 - Hyper-V connector requirements
20 - Creating a service account
21 - Download the Server Migration Connector
22 - Create the Server Migration Connector VM
23 - Configure the VM's IP address
24 - Perform a communications test
25 - Download the Hyper-V configuration script
26 - Run the configuration script
27 - Configure the Hyper-V connector
28 - Replicate a Hyper-V VM

5. Azure Migrations

29 - Azure migration requirements
30 - Download the connector installation script
31 - Gather the required information
32 - Deploy the Azure connector
33 - Configure the Azure connector
34 - Replicate an Azure VM

6. The Replication Process

35 - Troubleshoot the connector
36 - Monitor a replication job
37 - Delete a replication job
38 - Create an EC2 instance from a replicated VM

Conclusion

39 - Next steps