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What's New

Updated on 2023/06/19 GMT+08:00

The tables below describe the functions released in each Server Migration Service version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.

May 2023

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Enable Concurrency	You can set the maximum number of processes that the SMS-Agent can start concurrently (1 to 4) when migrating and synchronizing files of a Linux source server. However, the number of process that can actually be started depends on how well the source server performs and how many disks and partitions the source server has.	Commercial use	How Do I Set the Number of Concurrent Processes for Linux File-Level Migrations?

March 2023

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Set Migration Limits	You can set limits for CPU usage, memory usage, and disk throughput for SMS-Agent on the source server.	Commercial use	How Do I Set Resource Limits for SMS-Agent During a Linux Server Migration?

January 2023

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Check Network Performance	During the first full migration, a subtask will be generated to check the migration network performance by detecting the packet loss rate, jitter, network latency, bandwidth, memory usage, and CPU usage.	Commercial use	Migration Network Performance Check

November 2022

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Start Target Upon Launch	When configuring the destination ECS, select the status of the destination ECS after the migration is complete.	Commercial use	Configuring a Target Server

August 2022

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Deleting an EVS Snapshot	SMS generates snapshots for EVS disks on each target server during the full replication, incremental synchronization, and target cloning. For EVS disks in DSS storage pools, snapshots take up the same amount of space in the pool as the disks.	Commercial use	Deleting an EVS Snapshot

May 2022

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Migrating servers to enterprise projects	SMS allows you to migrate a server to a specific enterprise project.	Commercial use	Migrating Servers to Enterprise Projects

May 2021

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	New SMS console	Migration Template: A migration template defines the migration network type, migration rate limit, whether to enable continuous synchronization, and region and project. You can use a template to quickly configure migration tasks. Server Template: A server template defines the target server VPC, subnet, and security group. You can use a template to quickly configure target servers with the same settings.	Commercial use	Creating a Migration Template Creating a Server Template

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

New SMS console

Migration Template: A migration template defines the migration network type, migration rate limit, whether to enable continuous synchronization, and region and project. You can use a template to quickly configure migration tasks.
Server Template: A server template defines the target server VPC, subnet, and security group. You can use a template to quickly configure target servers with the same settings.

Commercial use

Creating a Migration Template

Creating a Server Template

November 2020

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Continuous synchronization	If you choose not to execute a continuous synchronization after the full replication, SMS will not perform a continuous synchronization and will automatically launch the target server. To synchronize incremental data, click Start in the Operation column. If you choose to execute a continuous synchronization after the full replication, SMS will perform a continuous synchronization. To complete the migration, you need to manually launch or clone the target server.	Commercial use	Configuring the Target Server

October 2020

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Locking target servers	After the migration starts, SMS automatically locks the target server. During this period, you are not allowed to operate the target server. This prevents migration failures.	Commercial use	--
2	New SMS console	Continuous Synchronization: After the full replication is complete, SMS automatically performs continuous synchronization, freeing you from manually synchronizing data. Clone Target Server: Before you launch the target server, you can clone the target server for service testing, and only launch the target server until tests confirm there are no issues. Project Management: You can manage your source servers by migration project.	Commercial use	SMS Usage Process

May 2019

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Migration to yearly/monthly ECSs	The source servers can be migrated to pay-per-use or yearly/monthly ECSs. You can select ECSs of whichever billing mode is appropriate.	Commercial use	How Do I Select a Target Server?

November 2018

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Interconnection with Direct Connect and Virtual Private Network (VPN）	SMS allows migration over a private network. You need to set up a Direct Connect or VPN connection in advance.	Commercial use	Configuring the Target Server

September 2018

No.	Feature	Description	Phase	Document
1	Rollout of SMS	Features Server Migration Service (SMS) helps you migrate applications and data from on-premises x86 physical servers or VMs on private or public clouds to ECSs on HUAWEI CLOUD. Application Scenarios OS migration Workload migration Database migration	Commercial use	Server Migration Service

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

Rollout of SMS

Features

Server Migration Service (SMS) helps you migrate applications and data from on-premises x86 physical servers or VMs on private or public clouds to ECSs on HUAWEI CLOUD.

Application Scenarios