From the course: Migrate VMware Virtual Machines to AWS: Agent-Based and Agentless Strategies
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Agentless migration requirements and limitations - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Migrate VMware Virtual Machines to AWS: Agent-Based and Agentless Strategies
Agentless migration requirements and limitations
- [Speaker] So far in this course, I've spent quite a bit of time talking about agent-based migrations. Now I want to turn my attention to agentless migrations. Agentless migrations are only supported in VMware environments, and they work a little bit differently than the agent-based migrations. As you've seen throughout this course, the agent-based migrations involve installing an agent directly onto the virtual machine and then allowing that agent to replicate the virtual machine contents up to the application migration service. Agentless migrations work a little bit differently. For an agentless migration, you're going to create a special purpose virtual machine running a Linux operating system. Then you're going to install a component called the vCenter Client onto this virtual machine. And the vCenter client's job is to facilitate communications between your vCenter server and the application migration service. And so this vCenter client is going to discover all of the virtual…
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