Migrating On-Premises NFS Using AWS DataSync and AWS Storage Gateway

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

Level

Advanced

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

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

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
• Editing Linux configuration files

Course 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