You can export the EC2 instance that is previously migrated from a VM, using the AWS Management Portal plugin which is integrated to your vCenter.

To know how to integrate AWS Management Portal with vCenter, refer to our previous blog by Clicking here.

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After the successful plugin integration, you will be seeing “AWS Management Portal” plugin getting appeared on the home page of your vCenter portal.

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Exporting Migrated EC2 to VM involves two sections

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  1. Preparing for Instance Export
  2. Exporting migrated instance

We will be explaining each topic in detail

Section 1: Preparing for instance export

  1. Open AWS: VCenter Plugin setup console, Click here
  2. On the “AWS Management Portal for vCenter” page, select “Configure Instance Export”

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  3. Click “Create New” if this is your first time or if it’s not, s3 buckets will get mapped to it automatically
  4. Configure a “Bucket Name” and choose “I agree that AWS Management Portal for vCenter may do the following on my behalf:” option and select “Create” button

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Section 2: Exporting Migrated instance to VM

  1. From the vCenter portal Click “Home” button and Select “ AWS Management Portal”
  2. On the “Dashboard” traverse to “Region->Environment-> Imported Instance-> Instance”
  3. On the “Getting Started Page” select “Export instance to S3” button and follow the onscreen instructions

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  4. On the successful export initiation, it will give you an export id, make a note of this id for future references

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  5. To monitor the running export job, you can check Ec2-to-S3 Migration tab

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  6. After the successful export – OVF file is created in the provided S3 bucket
  7. To download the exported OVF file, do the following
  • Open AWS S3 console – Click here
  • Select the bucket that contains your exported OVA file, say for example you have named your bucket as “vmexport” and the region you have choosed is “us-east-1” then you have to choose “Export-to-s3-vmexport-us-east-1” bucket
  • Select the OVA file, and choose download
  • Host downloaded OVA to your vCenter or ESXi to launch virtual machines

Conclusion:

Thus exporting a migrated EC2 instance to on-premise is simple with AWS connector and vCenter server.

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