AWS DMS Fleet Advisor is used to discover and assess on-premises database fleets. In this course, you learn how to install and configure a data collector and how to use it to discover on-premises databases and operating system servers. You learn how to get rightsized recommendations for target database instances where the source databases can be migrated to. You also learn about the next steps in the database migration.
- Course level: Intermediate
- Duration: 75 minutes
Activities
This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and assessments.
Course objectives
- Understand the functionality, benefits, and key concepts of AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
- Learn how to install, configure, discover, assess, and review recommendations using AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
- Understand the monitoring and metrics capabilities of AWS DMS Fleet Advisor using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail
Intended Audience:
- Solution architects
- Database engineers
- Migration engineers
- AWS Partners in the roles of solutions architects and migration engineers
Prerequisites
- A minimum of 2 years of database engineering, database administration, and architecture experience
- AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Getting Started
Course outline
- Module 1: Introduction to AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
- What Is AWS DMS Fleet Advisor?
- Benefits of AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
- Basic Concepts for Understanding AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
- Module 2: Configuration
- Prerequisite Configurations
- Configuration Options
- Demonstration of Configuration Flows
- Configuring and Running the On-Premises Data Collector
- Knowledge Check
- Module 3: AWS DMS Fleet Advisor in the AWS DMS Console
- Inventory Analysis
- Target Recommendations
- Knowledge Check
- Module 4: Installation and Deployment
- Preparing to Install
- Verifying the Deployment
- Checking the On-Premises Collector Status
- Knowledge Check
- Module 5: Monitoring
- Available Monitoring Tools
- Using CloudWatch to Monitor Custom Metrics
- Metrics Reporting
- Granularity of the Metrics
- Using the Metrics in AWS DMS Fleet Advisor
- Knowledge Check
- Module 6: Cleaning up
- Clean Up the Resources Used
- Module 7: Additional Resources
- Related Resources
