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Preparing a Linux server

Preparing a Linux server - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Preparing a Linux server

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- [Instructor] If you're performing an agent-based migration, then you're going to have to install an agent on the Linux servers that you're going to migrate. That agent replicates the contents of the server up to the Amazon cloud, and then you can use that replicated content to create virtual machine instances in EC2. Now, before you can install this agent onto your Linux machines, you're going to have to do a bit of prep work, and I'm going to guide you through that prep work in this video. But before we get to that, I strongly recommend consulting the Amazon documentation, which you can see on screen right now. So, why consult the documentation? Well, even though I'm going to be walking you through the preparation process, it's extremely important to consult the documentation first. For one thing, there are a lot of steps involved in the preparation process, and it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with those steps. More importantly though, the steps that you'll have to perform…

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