Replicating servers from vCenter to AWS
Once you have successfully installed the AWS vCenter client, all of your vCenter VMs will be added to Application Migration Service in the DISCOVERED state. The DISCOVERED state means that the VM has not been replicated to AWS.
Note
VMware only sends data for up to 50 servers in parallel. Replicating more than 50 servers at once will cause the rest to be queued and will result in a longer wait.
By default, the Application Migration Service Console only shows active servers. You can tell which servers are being shown by looking at the filtering box under the main Source servers title.
To see your discovered non-replicating servers that have been added from vCenter, open the filtering menu and choose Discovered source servers.
You will now see all of your non-replicating DISCOVERED VMs.
To replicate one or more VMs into AWS, select the box to the left of each VM name, choose the Replication menu, and then choose Start data replication.
Choose Start on the Start data replication for x servers dialog.
The Application Migration Service Console will indicate that data replication has started.
To view the data replication progress, open the filtering menu and return to the default Active source servers view.
You will now only see your replicating source servers. You can follow the launch process on the main Source servers view.
Once the VM has reached the Ready for testing state under Migration lifecycle, you can continue to launch test and cutover instances and perform all other regular Application Migration Service operations on the server.
