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Performing a cut over migration

Performing a cut over migration - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: Migrate VMware Virtual Machines to AWS: Agent-Based and Agentless Strategies

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Performing a cut over migration

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- [Instructor] Now that we performed a test migration, I want to show you how to perform a cutover migration. So as you can see, we're on the Application Migration Service dashboard, and we've got the source servers tab selected. I'm going to scroll down to the bottom of the screen, and here you can see my Linux Virtual Machine. So we've launched a test instance. If you look at the migration lifecycle, you can tell that a test is in progress. Right now, the replication status is healthy, and the next step is complete the testing and mark is ready for cutover. So if I were to go to EC2, you can see that we have a test instance that currently exists for this virtual machine. So to perform a cutover migration, we need to get rid of this test instance and launch a cutover instance. So I'm going to go back over to the Application Migration Service. And we'll assume that we're done testing, we've done everything that we need to do, and we're ready to move forward with the cutover migration.…

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