Migrating an On Premises NFS Share to the AWS Cloud

This lab demonstrates how to use AWS DataSync and AWS Storage Gateway to migrate data from an on-premises NFS server to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Objectives:

By the end of this lab, you will be able to do the following:

• Deploy and activate a DataSync agent on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance
• Create a DataSync task to copy data from a Linux-based NFS server to an S3 bucket
• Deploy and activate a Storage Gateway file gateway appliance as an EC2 instance
• Create an NFS file share on a file gateway
• Configure a Linux host to connect to an NFS share on a file gateway

Prerequisites:

To complete this lab it is suggested that the learner possess the following knowledge:

• A technical understanding of Amazon EC2, NFS and IP4 routing
• Competency with the Linux CLI

Audience:

Network Engineers

Cloud Architects

Systems Operations Administrators

DevOps Engineers

Outline:

Task 1: Connecting to the on-premises NFS server

Task 2: Deploying and activating an AWS DataSync agent instance

Task 3: Creating and running a DataSync task

Task 4: Deploying and activating an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway

Task 5: Creating an NFS share on the file gateway and reconfiguring the Linux client