| Import your VMware VM into EC2 |
| Tuesday, 21 December 2010 by Michel Roth | |||
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Amazon is the undisputed leader at the moment in what I personallyy consider to be real cloud computing. Recently they added the capability to import VMware VMs into their EC2.
VM Import lets you bring existing VMware images (VMDK files) to Amazon EC2. You can import "system disks" containing bootable operating system images as well as data disks that are not meant to be booted.
This new feature opens the door to a number of migration and disaster recovery scenarios. For example, you could use VM Import to migrate from your on-premises data center to Amazon EC2.
You can start importing 32 and 64 bit Windows Server 2008 SP2 images right now (we support the Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions). We are working to add support for other versions of Windows including Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We are also working on support for several Linux distributions including CentOS, RHEL, and SUSE. You can even import images into the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Source: VM Import - Bring Your VMware Images to The Cloud
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