The AWS VM Import/Export transport mode uses the AWS VM import/export service. Because this transport mode is the slowest, use it only when you can't use one of the other modes.
Requirements
Before replicating or converting a VM to a Nitro instance type, you must install certain drivers on the guest. For information, see Preparing the Source VM for Conversion to an Amazon EC2 Instance.
Process
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Upload the virtual machine disks to Amazon S3 as pages.
The naming convention for the temporary Amazon S3 bucket that the Commvault software creates in the destination AWS account to stage VHDX copies of each volume is gx-restore-region_name-account_id, where region_name is the name of the destination AWS Region and account_id is the ID of the destination AWS account for the restored EC2 instances. The VHDX copies of the volumes are used by the AWS VM Import/Export service to re-create the EC2 instances.
The S3 pages are retained as integrity snapshots for the next incremental replication.
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Merge the S3 pages for each disk to form a single VHD.
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Import the OS disk as an AMI, and import additional disks as snapshots.
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Launch an Amazon EC2 instance from the imported AMI and attach the additional disks (volumes) from the imported snapshots.
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Delete the AMI and snapshots from AWS and the merged VHDs from the S3 bucket.