Ensure that you also convert the
*.pem
file to the
*.ppk
format and configure PuTTY for
establishing an SSH connection.
Ensure that you updated AWS details using the AWS CLI. For more information, see
on page 47.
Procedure
1. Start a command line interpreter on a computer with the installed AWS CLI.
2. Run the following command to check whether the S3 bucket is ready to use:
aws s3 ls
The system displays the S3 bucket that you created.
3. To view the content of the S3 bucket, run the
aws s3 ls s3://<nameofbucket>
command.
4. To import the ova for conversion, run the following command:
>aws ec2 import-image --cli-input-json "{ \"Description\": \"<server.ova>\",
\"DiskContainers\": [ { \"Description\": \"<text description of task>\",
\"UserBucket\": { \"S3Bucket\": \"<your_bucket_name>\", \"S3Key\" : \"<server.ova>
\" } } ]}"
The system displays the Status and the ImportTaskId parameters.
In the following example, when the system converts the CM Simplex OVA, ImportTaskId is
import-ami-ffmanv5x
.
{
"Status": "active",
"Description": "<version>-aws-001.ova",
"Progress": "2",
"SnapshotDetails": [
{
"UserBucket": {
"S3Bucket": "<version>-dev",
"S3Key": "<version>-aws-001.ova"
},
"DiskImageSize": 0.0
}
],
"StatusMessage": "pending",
"ImportTaskId": "import-ami-fftlelct"
}
5. To check the status of the import image, run the following command:
aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --cli-input-json "{ \"ImportTaskIds\":
[\"<Your_ImportTaskId>\"], \"NextToken\": \"abc\", \"MaxResults\": 10 } "
The conversion process takes up to 30 minutes. You can run the above command
repeatedly.
In the following example, the process is preparing the AMI and is 76% complete:
IMPORTIMAGETASKS x86_64 CM-Simplex-07.1.0.0.xxx-aws-001.ova import-ami-ffgji45r
BYOL Linux 76 active preparing ami
The output format varies depending on the selection of the text or JSON format on the
AWS CLI configuration.
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