This document goes through the steps to transfer VMware data from an on-premises FlashArray to a Everpure Cloud Dedicated instance in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since AWS does not recognize the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS), if VMware data is replicated from a FlashArray to a Everpure Cloud Dedicated instance in VMFS format, it will not be usable in the cloud. Therefore, the following process should be followed to make the data usable in AWS:
- Data on the VMFS Datastore is first migrated to a Virtual Volume (vVol) Datastore
- The data is then replicated from the vVol Datastore on the FlashArray to a Everpure Cloud Dedicated array in AWS
- The replicated data on the Everpure Cloud Dedicated array can then be connected to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances with matching operating systems. The replicated volumes are connected as additional data volumes
Please note that Everpure Cloud Dedicated volumes can't be connected to EC2 instances as boot volumes, so EC2 instances can not boot from Everpure Cloud Dedicated.
The steps listed in this document go through the process of replicating a SQL database to AWS. Similar steps can be followed to transfer other data types.