Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 20 Jan 2009 02:31 pm
I want EC2 Cloud but I’ve got VMWare !
Many organisations are used to using virtualisation in-house probably from the use of VMWare. Often the organisational need is to move an existing virtualised application hosted on VMWare to a cloud provider, such as EC2. If this is your scenario, standards won’t help but you can still achieve what you need to do. The basic steps to do this are:
1. Shut down the existing VMWare image
2. Grab a copy of QEMU which you can use to convert the image.
3. The VMDK file will then be converted into a RAW file
4. As this is a RAW image it should be bootable by a local Xen, QEMU or KVM installation.
5. Now you need to bundle this into an AMI using ‘ec2-bundle-image’
6. Lastly you need to upload the bundled image and register it in EC2.
7. The AMI will appear when you request a list of your images
We’ve done this for quite a few clients now and it is a relatively straight forward process.
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on 27 Apr 2009 at 6:42 pm # sergio
Do you have anymore details on this process that you can provide?