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Overview

This best practice describes the detailed procedure and precautions for migrating servers from Alibaba Cloud to Huawei Cloud.

The key steps include:

  1. Making Preparations: Ensure that the migration accounts are available and the accounts have required permissions.
  2. Installing the MgC Agent (formerly Edge): Download and install the MgC Agent, a tool provided by MgC.
  3. Discovering Resources: Collect information about the Alibaba Cloud ECSs to be migrated.
  4. Assessing Migration Readiness: Check the configuration of the Alibaba Cloud ECSs to be migrated, test their network connectivity, and gather them into groups.
  5. Assessing Target Servers: Get recommendations for Huawei Cloud resources and configure target servers for source servers.
  6. Creating a Workflow: Create a migration workflow to migrate your source servers.

Precautions

Before creating a server migration workflow, read and understand the precautions below.

Item

Precaution

Source download bandwidth

Used to download SMS-Agent to source servers.

  • If each source server uses a dedicated bandwidth, the bandwidth must be at least 30 Mbit/s.
  • If source servers share a bandwidth, the average bandwidth must be at least 50 Mbit/s.

Migration bandwidth
  • Used to migrate data. It affects the migration speed and duration.
  • For details about how to estimate the migration duration, see How Long Does a Migration Take?

CPU and memory requirements
  • At least 520 MB of available memory
  • At least 0.3 CPUs available in Linux and at least 1 CPU available in Windows

OS compatibility

See Supported OSs.

Server migration statements

For details about the important statements you need to understand before the migration, see What Are the Important Statements of SMS?

Constraints

For details, see Notes and Constraints.

Billing

For details about the fees that may be incurred during the migration, see Billing.

Permissions configuration

For details, see Permissions Management.

Migration network and ports

For details about the requirements for the migration network and ports, see How Do I Set Up a Secure Migration Network for Using SMS?

Changes in server configurations before and after migration

For details about the configurations that may change after the migration, see What Are the Differences Between the Source and Target Servers After the Migration?
Parent Topic: Migrating Servers from Alibaba Cloud to Huawei Cloud