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Additional migration strategies

Additional migration strategies

IBM Power Virtual Server located in IBM data centers: Off-premises

IBM Power Virtual Server Private Cloud: On-premises

IBM teams and managed services

You can engage IBM teams and services to assist you throughout the migration lifecycle.

Aspera Technologies

IBM Aspera® on Cloud is a hosted service that quickly and reliably moves and shares your data sets across a hybrid cloud environment. IBM Aspera can help transfer data to the IBM Cloud for later retrieval from the Power Virtual Server environment. For more information, see IBM Aspera on Cloud.

Use the Accelerated network transfer migration guide powered by Aspera to accelerate the transfer of your migration content. It helps you to directly transfer the migration content to the Power Virtual Server workspace and you achieve faster time to value from IBM cloud.

IBM Cloud Object Storage

Cloud Object Storage can be used as an intermediary location to store files from your On-premises environment. You can retrieve and send your files to the Power Virtual Server environment from this location. You must create Cloud Object Storage buckets to transfer data over the public internet or privately secured links. For more information, see IBM Cloud Object Storage: FAQ.

To copy data from Cloud Object Storage to your AIX virtual machine (VM), you must install the Amazon Web Services (AWS) CLI by using either the Yellowdog Updater, Modified (yum) or Pip installs Python pip (pip) package managers. If you use the yum package manager, you can install the AWS CLI with the yum install aws-cli command. For the pip package manager, you can use pip install awscli to install the AWS CLI. After the installation, you can use the universal S3 commands that are supported by AWS to copy objects.

You can also find a script that ships (as a sample command) with AIX 7.2 TL3, or later, that simplifies the installation of yum, pip, and the AWS CLI. You can find the script at: /usr/samples/nim/cloud_setup.

For an IBM i VM, you must use the Cloud Storage Solution for IBM i product (5733-ICC) to communicate with Cloud Object Storage and transfer data.

PowerVC images and Cloud Object Storage

If you have an environment with access to PowerVC, you can capture OVA images to easily migrate your data. Using the Power Virtual Server offering, you can provision a new virtual server based on an OVA image. To accomplish this, regardless of the operating system (OS), you must complete the following steps:

  1. Create an OVA image on your local system.
  2. Copy the OVA image to your Cloud Object Storage account.
  3. Deploy the OVA image and provision a new Power Virtual Server.