I have an aws ec2 instance ( Ubuntu 14.04 ) and I have some data in it.
Also I have IBM System X 3550 machine on which Ubuntu is installed. I want copy the data from AWS instance IBM. What way you recommend ?
Use elastic ip of amazon machine and use scp.
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I have an Ubuntu instance that I can use ssh(22 port) and vnc(5901~5909) to connect to this instance.
After installing nginx for my application,then I create AMI for backup.
However,I cannot connect to this instance by using VNC after creating AMI ,but using ssh still works.
Does anyone have similar experience? Thanks a lot.
I have a Tableau server running on EC2 instance followed steps from this documentation
Tableau Server & Amazon AWS - Installation Walkthrough
What additional information or what things i require to connect to that tableau server from a remote desktop?
please somebody guide me on this!
I am not able to understand that how would a remote computer connect to the tableau server running on EC2 instance?
Steps 3 and 4 involve creating a static EIP address and then assigning that to your AWS instance. This static EIP address is the one you use to access your Tableau Server from a remote computer.
I'm using Switchvox, an Asterisk PBX and I'd like to host it on EC2.
Digium Switchvox provides an ISO which contains everything needed to host the pbx server: OS, software, etc. It's basically an image of the server.
How do I instantiate a new EC2 instance using the custom ISO they're providing?
From this ISO, you can create either a VMware or VirtualBox image. Form there, you may convert this image into an EC2 AMI image and go from there.
Just make sure you are using the same arch (32 v. 64) and proper kernel.
That being said, you might get into more operations then simply fire up an existing vanilla AMI available from the community. There might be one that closely match your OS requirements.
Overview:
Check pre-requisites
Install your ISO onto VMware vSphere then export as VMDK
Upload your VMDK to an S3 bucket on the same AWS account
Install and configure AWS command line interface (CLI)
Setup a VM Import Service Role
Use the CLI to import the VM from S3 into an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI)
This is a lengthy process, so it's worth reading through the pre-requisites. Pay particular attention to the supported operating systems / Linux distributions and versions.
They clearly state "Note that you can only import VMDK files into Amazon EC2 that were created through the OVF export process in VMware."
For example, you can get a VMDK using VirtualBox, but if you try to import this you might see the following error, when checking the status:
aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids import-ami-someid
"StatusMessage": "ClientError: Disk validation failed [Unsupported VMDK File Format]"
However, there is some Oracle documentation on exporting a virtual machine in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
If all goes well, you can launch the newly imported AMI as usual.
You can create a VMware virtual machine using your custom ISO and move it from your VMware host to EC2. Read more: VM Import/Export
Only Windows Server 2008 variants can be converted from VMDK to AMI.
i am complete noob when comes to Linux . how can i connect remotely desktop or Gui to a a Ubuntu Server Cloud Guest 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) server in amazon aws from a windows 7 machine ,
can some one give me a link to complete tutorial
I'm going to go ahead and assume your remote Ubuntu instance doesn't have an X server installed -- i.e. you're using the command line version.
Download and install Putty and you should be able to connect to your AWS instance using the SSH keys you initially set up.
Also, recently AWS has added a new feature,
You can now log in to an EC2 instance from the AWS Management Console using an integrated SSH client.
Just right on the ec2 instance from the aws management console and click on connect and
select the second option - Connect from your browser using the MindTerm SSH Client (Java Required).
Specify the private key path and click on "launch mindterm".. thats it.
Is there any way of getting the saved EC2 instance image and running it on virtualbox on my personal computer?
The official way is only if it was originally imported into EC2
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ExportingEC2Instances.html
If you have previously imported an instance into Amazon EC2, you can
use the command line tools to export that instance to Citrix Xen,
Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware vSphere. Exporting an instance can be
useful when you want to deploy a copy of your EC2 instance in your
on-site virtualization environment.
You cannot export an instance unless it was previously imported into AWS
it looks like you can directly import/export ec2 and virtualbox/vmware images.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/
The amazon tool is very restrictive. But you can dump your EBS, download it and make a VDI image out of it. I have done it with two of my EC2 instances and described the steps on my blog.
http://diogomelo.net/blog/16/export-amazon-ec2-instance-to-virtualbox