AWS EC2 backup > Instant VM recovery to VMware vSphere

[mikepegg]

Hi,

I have some general questions about specifics of AWS EC2 backup > Instant VM recovery to VMware vSphere.
Strikes me as something that would have some notable limitations.

I can see one page of documentation here, is there any more? Ideally limitations?
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

Top of my thoughts:
Is everything supported? Amazon AMI Images? Windows and Linux?
Multiple Networks?
Disk Sizes?
Encrypted EBS disks?
What EC2 size will it use? Does this need to be pre-created?

[veremin]

I think there might be certain misunderstanding, as some of your questions concern restore to Amazon EC2 scenario, not restore to VMware vSphere one.

Generally, the referenced line suggests that you can take backups created by Veeam Backup for AWS product and restore them as VMware vSphere Virtual Machine. More information regarding Veeam Backup for AWS, including its limitations, can be found here.

Thanks!

[soncscy]

I've done this a few times and it's surprisingly graceful. Expect some boot issues as it doesn't look like Veeam touches too much during the conversion, but if you're migrating a modern OS over, it should have all the necessary drivers already. But, just be ready that you might need to poke a few machines with really specific disk/volume configurations. (Sorry I can't be more specific as I just don't remember the client configurations I worked with)

[mikepegg]

Thanks for the responces.
My thoughts are how well I could migrate roughly 500 win2012/rhel7 EC2 Instances of varying configurations to VMware vSphere.

I can't see anything in the technical documentation that describes technical limitations.
The AWS supplied conversion tool to VMware, for example has limits such as you cannot export an AWS supplied AMI image out, they must user supplied images.

It sounds like I will need to build a PoC to find out.