Migrate VMs to Amazon EC2 using Amazon FSx for ONTAP: Other Possibilities and Conclusion
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This article highlight other possibilities for this migration solution as well as concluding the topic.
Other possibilities
The same approach can be extended to migrate VMs using in-guest storage on on-premises VMs. The OS VMDK can be migrated using CMC and the in-guest iSCSI LUNs can be replicated using SnapMirror. The process requires breaking the mirror and attaching the LUN to the newly migrated Amazon EC2 instance, as depicted in the diagram below.
Conclusion
This document has provided a complete walkthrough of using the MigrateOps feature of CMC to migrate data stored in on-premises VMware repositories to AWS using Amazon EC2 instances and FSx ONTAP.
The following video demonstrates the migration process from start to finish:
To check out the GUI and basic Amazon EBS to FSx ONTAP local migration, please watch this five-minute demo video: