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

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 24,800 courses taught by industry experts.

Performing a test migration

Performing a test migration

- [Instructor] Okay, so the replication process has completed, and I want to show you how to perform a test to make sure that your virtual machine is going to work properly in the Amazon Cloud. So, right now we're in the application migration service, looking at the dashboard, and we can see that there are two healthy servers, and both of those are ready for testing. I'll go ahead and scroll down to the bottom of the screen, and you can see the servers right here. We have a Linux virtual machine and we have a Windows virtual machine. Now, before I show you how to perform a test, it's worth noting that I'm dealing with these servers on an individual basis. In other words, I'm going to pretend that each server contains one single application and that no applications span multiple servers. In the real world though, that's not always the case. It's very common to have distributed applications that span multiple servers. And when you run into a situation like that, you may not want to…

Contents