SMS Best Practices
This document introduces common use cases of Server Migration Service (SMS) and provides detailed solution description and operation guide, helping you quickly migrate servers.
| Best Practice | Description |
|---|---|
| Moving Huawei Cloud ECSs from Multiple Accounts to a Single Account | This practice describes how to use SMS to efficiently integrate resources from different Huawei Cloud accounts into one account, or migrate Elastic Cloud Servers (ECSs) in region A to region B. |
| This practice describes how to use SMS to migrate x86 Windows physical servers or Windows VMs on private or public clouds to Huawei Cloud ECSs or Flexus instances. | |
| This practice describes how to use SMS to migrate x86 Linux physical servers or Linux VMs on private or public clouds to Huawei Cloud ECSs or Flexus instances. | |
| Migrating Physical or Virtual Servers On-Premises or in Other Clouds to Huawei Cloud | This practice describes how to migrate physical machines or cloud servers to Huawei Cloud ECSs. |
| Migrating the System and Data Partitions of a Windows Server to Separate Disks of a Huawei Cloud ECS | This practice describes how to migrate the system partition (C drive) and other partitions (e.g., D drive and E drive) of a disk on an on-premises server to the system disk and data disks of a Huawei Cloud ECS, respectively. |
| This practice describes how to use SMS to migrate AWS EC2 servers running Linux to Huawei Cloud ECS. | |
| This practice describes how to use SMS to migrate Tencent Cloud Cloud Virtual Machines (CVMs) running Linux to Huawei Cloud ECS. | |
| Setting Up an SMS Migration Network Using VPN, Direct Connect, and Cloud Connect | This practice describes the typical networking issues that prevent access to cloud services, along with their fixes. |
| This practice describes how to migrate a server to an enterprise project for the purpose of isolating permissions, resources, and finances. | |
| This practice describes how to create a private image from your own agent image and modify the related configuration file if you want to use your own agent images for migration. | |
| SMS supports data migration using IPv6 in a dual-stack network environment. This practice describes how to set up an IPv6 network and create a migration task. | |
| This practice describes the network requirements and configuration methods for server migration in several typical network environments. | |
| Using MgC to Migrate Servers Without Internet Access over Private Lines | This practice describes how to use Migration Center (MgC) to migrate servers without Internet access in batches in the LA-Sao Paulo1 region. |
| This practice describes how to downsize disks for a Linux server after it is migrated using SMS. | |
| SMS can only automatically identify primary NICs and modify their configurations. It cannot automatically identify extension NICs. If a source server has extension NICs, the following situations may occur:
To retain the network settings of the source server on the target server, you need to perform the steps provided in this practice. | |
| This practice describes how to upgrade Windows after the migration. |
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