Virtual Machinne Migration

Applicaiton Discovery Service

• Discover on-premises infrastructure
  • vms, cpu, memory including utilization

• Different modes:

  • Agentless (Application Discovery Agentless Connector)

    • ...OVA appliance, integrates with VMWARE - inventory, vm usage
    • measure performance and resource usage - limited to metrics that has been exposed externally

  • Agent Based discovery for in VM data gathering.

    • network, processes, usage, performance
    • more detailed metrics and informations
    • ..dependancies between servers (network activity)

• Integration with AWS Migraiton Hub and Amazon Athena

  • hub - tracks migration of different types within AWS
  • athena - perform adhoc analysis of data generation

Server Migration Service (SMS)

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service/latest/userguide/server-migration.html

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. - Migrate whole VM's (OS, Data, Apps .. migrated as is) - Runs on Agentless mode - connector runs as VM on-premise - Integrates with VMWare, Hyper-V and AzureVM only - Import/Export (anothe AWS service) - downtime - Incremental replication of live volumes - Orchestrate multi-server migrations - Creates AMIs which can be used to create EC2 instances - Integrates with AWS Migration Hub