Learn about some of the most useful and popular tools that you can leverage at various stages of a migration project. These tools will allow your teams to focus on coordinating the migration and automating as many migration activities as possible.

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Mandus Momberg, Partner Solutions Architect
Carmen Puccio, Partner Solutions Architect
11/30/16
Develop Your Migration Toolkit
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2. Agenda
 How to approach a cloud migration.
 What types of tools to consider for the various
stages and types of migrations.
 Automating migration activities.

3. How AWS customers are migrating
Cloud Adoption Framework
1) Evaluate
opportunity
2) Discover,
Analyze and
Plan
3) Application
Design
4) Migrate,
Integrate, and
Validate
5) Operate and
Optimize
Application 3 Application 3
Application 2 Application 2
Application 1 Application 1
Existing IT
Estate
Evaluation
Planning and
Discovery
Operation

4. Challenges
Tools can help with the below challenges
 Data center migrations can involve thousands of workloads and tens
of thousands of servers.
 Large-scale server migration is a long and complex project with
significant manual labor.
 Complex application interdependencies that are poorly understood.
 Identifying application inventory and dependencies manually slows
down migration process.
 Difficulty of testing server migrations iteratively makes them less
confident about the migration process.
 Long server downtime at cutover can incur additional business loss.

5. What Tools Do I Need To Consider?
Portfolio Discovery Tools
Server Migration Tools
Database Migration Tools
Data Migration Tools
Application Profiling Tools

6. Portfolio Discovery
Tools should automate your discovery process
and can be classified as:
Agent-based vs Agentless
Port scanning vs Packet scanning
Appliance-based vs SaaS offering

7. Portfolio Discovery
 How will you deploy agents if it is an agent based
solution?
 Will your security policies let you share administrative
credentials if needed with the tool?
 Can the discovered data be stored in a location outside
of your organization?
 Do you have or need application-to-port mapping details
or use custom ports?

8. Portfolio Discovery
 Are you running any custom applications in your
environment?
 Are there any restrictions on the type of ports that can be
used for scanning?
 Do you need automated right sizing of the target
environment?
 Do you need estimated run costs of the target
environment?
 Do you have or need deep application or infrastructure
performance monitoring?

9. AWS Application Discovery Service
Automate data center application discovery
Identify Application
Inventory
Map Application
Dependencies
Baseline System and
Process Performance

10. AWS Application Discovery Service
Overview
 Agents deployed on source hosts.
Agentless for VMWare.
 Windows & Linux support
 Capture system inventory, performance,
and dependencies
 Capture and store secured data to AWS
 API access to discovered assets
 Output to CSV or XML
 Can be imported into a third-party
migration or visualization tool
Discovery
Agents
AWS
Discovery DB
AWS Application
Discovery Service
On-premises data center or
VMware vCenter Encrypted
data
Agentless
Discovery
Appliance
(Standalone
VM)

11. Partner Tools
Migration Technology for Discovery & Planning
https://aws.amazon.com/migration/partner-solutions/#discovery-planning

12. What’s Next?

13. Cloud Migration Strategy
Discover/Assess/Prioritize
Applications
Use Migration Tools
Cutover
Retain /
Not
Moving
App Code
Development
Purchase COTS/
SaaS & licensing
Validate
Modify underlying
Infrastructure
Full ALM /
SDLC
Manual Config
Manual
Deploy
Manual
Install
Retire /
Decommissi
on
Determine
Migration
Path
Automate
Manual Install
& Setup
Integration
Determine
new platform
Operate

14. Comparing Cloud Migration Strategies
Time Cost Agility
Retain + + N/A
Retire + + N/A
Re-host ++ ++ ++
Re-purchase +++ ++++ +++
Re-platform +++ +++ +++
Refactor ++++ ++++ ++++
Low
High
MigrationComplexity

15. Planning Your Cloud Migration
Now that you’ve gathered all of the application and
performance metrics for each server/application and have
done a complete analysis and have consulted with the
business/technology teams:
 Decide on a migration strategy
 Retain; Retire; Re-purchase; Re-host; Re-platform; Re-factor
 Decide on a priority and build the migration backlog.
 Identify tools to help facilitate the migration
 Start to architect and design what the operational landing
zone will look like.

16. Getting Ready for Migration Planning
Before you can create a detailed plan for your cloud migration
project, you must have:
 A final architecture for the target environment in the AWS
cloud.
 Understand hybrid connectivity with the target cloud
environment.
 A discovery of your cloud migration portfolio.
 Details of the application owners.
 Come up with a contingency plan to ensure that the blast
radius is small is contained if there are issues.

17. Migration Planning Final Planning
 Network connectivity
 Migration tools
 Monitoring
 Amount of data
 AWS service limits (soft and hard)
 On-premises limitations
 Test plans for the application and your users.
 Cutover plans
 Escalation and operational plans
 Define success criteria
 One last baseline performance analysis of the source environment
for comparison to the new environment.

18. AWS Server Migration Service
Automate the end-to-end server migration process
Automates an incremental
replication of live server volumes
to AWS
Orchestrates large-scale
server migrations
Migrate servers to AWS
in a cost effective manner
Support most widely used
operating systems
Manage migration and track the
process easily with a GUI
Reduce server downtime at
cutover

19. AWS Server Migration Service
Overview
 Support VMware VMs migration with the
initial release
 Windows & Linux support
 Agentless VM migration
 Capture incremental changes made to
on-premises VMs and transfer to AWS
 Create migration waves
 AWS Management Console and
API/CLI access
 Launch EC2 instances from Amazon
Machine Images (AMI)
VMs
AWS Server
Migration Service
On-premises VMware VMs
AMIAMIs
Encrypted
data

20. Partner Tools
Migration Technology for Workload Mobility
https://aws.amazon.com/migration/partner-solutions/#workload-mobility

21. AWS Database Migration Service
Overview
 Keep your applications running during
the migration
 Start a replication instance
 Configure both database endpoints
 Select tables, schemas, or databases
 Switch applications over to the target
at your convenience as AWS DMS
keeps the target database in sync.
 Wide support of databases
 Homogeneous migrations (ex: Oracle to
Oracle)
 Heterogeneous migrations (ex: Oracle to
Amazon Aurora)
On-premises Database AWS
Database
Migration
Service

22. Partner Tools
Migration Technology for Database Integration and Management
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/partners/#Database_Migration

23. AWS Import/Export Snowball
Overview
 Extremely Scalable
 Single appliance up to 50 TB or 80 TB
 Multiple appliances can be used in parallel
to transfer Petabytes of data.
• High speed
 10GBaseT network connection.
 Programmable
 Snowball job management API
 Snowball S3 Adapter
 Tamper resistant and secure
 256-bit encryption keys managed by
AWS Key Management Service
On-premises Data
Fast
Elastic
Cost effective
10G network
50TB or 80TB capacity

24. Operate and Optimize
Now the fun begins
 Ensure application performance
 Look to proactively monitor your
application end-to-end
 Track metrics, collect and monitor log files
 The goal is to resolve issues before they
impact your customers
 Fine tune your application – Always
evolve
 It is an iterative process
 Think about scalability

25. Partner Tools
Migration Technology for Application Profiling
https://aws.amazon.com/migration/partner-solutions/#application-profiling

26. Tools For Each Phase
Application 3
Application 2 Application 2
Application 1 Application 1
Existing IT
Estate
Evaluation
Planning and
Discovery Operation
Snowball
AWS Discovery Service
AWS Server
Migration Service
AWS Database
Migration Service AWS Snowball
AWS Config AWS CloudWatch
Application 3

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