Migration - SMS Server Migration Service

Question 1

What is SMS?

Answer 1

an agentless service migrating thousand of on-prim workloads to AWS; orchestrates server migrations through automating, scheduling and tracking replications

Question 2

Which OSs does SMS support?

Answer 2

Windows (2003 - 16) and Linux (RHEL, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu)

Question 3

How is a served treated?

Answer 3

each replicated server volume is saved as an AMI and launched as an EC2

Question 4

Can VMs be migrated?

Answer 4

yes, VMs from vSphere and Hyper-V to AWS

Question 5

How long can I replicate my on-prem server to AWS?

Answer 5

90 days then automatically terminated

Question 6

How much can customers migrate?

Answer 6

up to 16 TBs

Question 7

What is SMS connector?

Answer 7

FreeBSD VM that must be deployed on your on-prem Vcenter to use SMS; requires separate connector to simultaneously migrate VMs from both Vsphere and microsoft

Question 8

How is data secured?

Answer 8

TLS in transit

Question 9

Pricing?

Answer 9

charges with every S3 usage and EBS snapshot created by SMS