Category: Technical How-to

AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS) discovers servers in preparation for a migration to AWS. ADS performs discovery via importing data from existing sources or by deploying Discovery Agents or the Agentless Collector which collect server performance and network communication data. This data is sent to AWS Migration Hub where the servers can be organized into […]

Introduction Migrating Kubernetes clusters can be a complex and challenging task, requiring careful planning and execution to ensure a smooth transition. A key aspect of this process is the disposition strategy – the approach taken to determine the fate of the existing cluster and resources as the migration occurs. Effective disposition planning is crucial for […]

Rehost (also known as lift and shift) is a migration strategy that allows you to quickly move applications to the cloud, without making application changes. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is used for rehost migrations, as the service creates a copy of the source disk with the operating system and its configuration settings. These […]

In this blog post, I will show you how to configure and run the x86 virtualized version of the OpenVMS operating system provided by VMS Software, Inc. in a cluster configuration on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal instance. I will highlight integration points between OpenVMS guests running on the Amazon EC2 […]