There are several methods you can use to migrate a server to the cloud:
- The host or OS cloning technique involves installing an agent on the source system that will clone the OS image of the system. A snapshot is created on the source system and then sent to the target system. This type of cloning is used for a one-time migration. With the OS Copy method, all operating system files are copied from the source machine and hosted on a cloud instance. For the OS Copy method to be effective, the people and/or tool that executes the migration must understand the underlying OS environment.
- The Disaster Recovery (DR) replication technique deploys an agent on the source system that's used to replicate data to the target. However, the data is replicated at the filesystem or block level. A few solutions continuously replicate the data to target volumes, offering a continuous data replication solution. With the Disk Copy method, the disk volume is copied in its entirety. Once...
