VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Migrated EC2 instance export process

We can leverage the management portal in vCenter to export an EC2 instance which was earlier migrated from a VM. During the process for exporting an instance, create an Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) file and store it in an Amazon S3 bucket in your AWS account.

If we have not previously exported an EC2 instance using vCenter, we must first specify the name which we will use for the S3 buckets that we created for instance export. AWS creates one S3 bucket in each region for this purpose, with a nomenclature which follows the form export-to-s3-name-region.

The following are the requirements:

• You must be an administrator of the management portal to export an EC2 instance.
• You can configure instance ...