Alibaba Cloud Migration Tool

The official version of Alibaba Cloud Migration Tool is a professional server migration tool brought by Alibaba Cloud. The computer version of Alibaba Cloud Migration Tool has a simple and friendly interface, which can help users migrate source servers to Alibaba Cloud. Source servers generally refer to your IDC servers, virtual machines, cloud hosts of other cloud platforms, or other types of servers. Alibaba Cloud The settings of the cloud migration tool interface are consistent with the command line interface configuration principles.

Features of Alibaba Cloud Migration Tool Software

1. Menu bar: It consists of four function pages: configuration, log, help and language.

2. The user-defined configuration (user_config.json) editing area is mainly used to configure some necessary configuration information of the source server, including your AccessKey information, source server operating system information, system disk size, and migration of the source server to Alibaba Cloud. The region ID, the name after generating the ECS image, and the configuration information of the generated target custom image, etc. See Editing user_config.json for more details.

3. Disk list, including system disk and data disk. You can right-click in this area to add disks that need to be migrated to the cloud, and double-click to enter the disk information editing page.

4. Task progress and log area. After running the cloud migration tool, you can check the task progress through this area or troubleshoot faults according to the interface prompts.

5. Configuration of the menu bar: You can click the transmission option here to set the upper bandwidth limit for data transmission in KB/s. Click Save User Configuration to save the current page settings for batch operations. Click Clean Tool Data 1. Key initializes the client configuration file. For more details, see Using the Cloud Migration Tool.

6. Log in the menu bar: You can click Open Log File here to quickly open the log file, or click Open Log Directory to find the path to the log file.

7. Menu bar help: You can get online documentation or cloud migration tool version information here.

8. Menu bar language: You can select the display language of the cloud migration tool here.

9. You can add data disks here. The cloud migration tool will automatically query the data disk drive letter list in your server and display the used data disk space. The data disk size setting needs to be larger than the actual occupied size of the source server data disk. For example, if the source data disk size is 500GiB and the actual occupied size is 100GiB, then you only need to set it to greater than 100GiB.

Alibaba Cloud Migration Tool Running Platform

Windows

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2016

Linux

Amazon Linux 2014 and higher

CentOS 5/6/7

Debian 7/8/9

Gentoo 13.0

OpenSUSE 13.1

Oracle Linux 5/6/7

Red Hat 5/6/7

SUSE 11.4/12.1/12.2

Ubuntu 10/12/14/16/17

How to use Alibaba Cloud migration tool

Complete the server information configuration on the GUI interface.

Click Run to start the cloud migration.

View cloud migration results.

When the Goto Aliyun Finished! prompt appears in the task progress and log area, go to the image details page of the ECS management console to view the results.

When the Goto Aliyun Not Finished! prompt appears in the task progress and log area, troubleshoot the fault through the log check and log files on the menu function page. See troubleshooting for details. After fixing the problem, re-run the cloud migration tool to resume the cloud migration work. The cloud migration tool will continue the cloud migration from the last execution progress without starting over.

Alibaba Cloud Migration Tool Update Log

1. Fix the connection transfer instance timeout problem;

2. Fix the startup problem of CentOS/Red Hat visual desktop version;

3. Optimize the Windows restore check tool;

4. Fix the Windows GUI incremental task crash problem;

5. Other known issues fixed.

6. Note: The old version of the cloud migration tool will gradually no longer be maintained and updated. It is recommended to use the server migration center instead.