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Amazon Web Services

Migrating an On Premises NFS Share to the AWS Cloud

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Overview

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This lab demonstrates how to use AWS DataSync and AWS Storage Gateway to migrate data from an on-premises NFS server to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).


Objectives:

By the end of this lab, you will be able to do the following:

  • Deploy and activate a DataSync agent on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance
  • Create a DataSync task to copy data from a Linux-based NFS server to an S3 bucket
  • Deploy and activate a Storage Gateway file gateway appliance as an EC2 instance
  • Create an NFS file share on a file gateway
  • Configure a Linux host to connect to an NFS share on a file gateway


Prerequisites:

To complete this lab it is suggested that the learner possess the following knowledge:

  • A technical understanding of Amazon EC2, NFS and IP4 routing
  • Competency with the Linux CLI


Audience:

Network Engineers

Cloud Architects

Systems Operations Administrators

DevOps Engineers


Outline:

Task 1: Connecting to the on-premises NFS server

Task 2: Deploying and activating an AWS DataSync agent instance

Task 3: Creating and running a DataSync task

Task 4: Deploying and activating an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway

Task 5: Creating an NFS share on the file gateway and reconfiguring the Linux client

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