The image check feature checks an image. For example, the feature checks whether an image is valid and whether the image can be used to create full-featured Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. You can enable the image check feature when you create a server migration job or an agentless migration job for a VMware VM. This feature helps you identify potential issues in images or ECS instances after the migration job is complete, and provides solutions to the identified issues. This helps you improve the success rate of starting ECS instances.
Prerequisites
The information about a migration source is imported.
If you want to migrate a server, you can select one of the following methods to import the information about the migration source based on your business requirements:
For more information about how to migrate VMware VMs without agents, see Import the information about a migration source by configuring the Server Migration Connector without agents.
The migration source is in the Active state. You can create a migration job for a migration source only if the migration source is in the Active state. For more information about how to restore a migration source to the Active state, see the "What can I do if I am unable to create a migration task because the migration source is not in the Active state?" section of the SMC FAQ topic.
Limits
Some operating systems do not support the image check feature. For more information about the operating systems that do not support the image check feature, see Limits on operating systems.
Billing
You can use the image check feature free of charge.
Procedure
Log on to the Server Migration Center (SMC) console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Migration Sources.
Find the migration source and click Create Migration Job in the Actions column.
In the Create Migration Job dialog box, configure the parameters.
This example shows how to enable and disable the image check feature. For more information about other parameters of a migration job, see Create a server migration job or Create an agentless migration task for a VMware VM.
Turn on or off Image Check in Advanced mode.
On (default): enables the image check feature.
Off: disables the image check feature.
Click Create.
On the Migration Jobs page, wait until the migration job is complete. You can view the migration speed and remaining synchronization duration. If the state of the migration job changes to Finished, the migration is successful.
View the image check results.
On the Migration Jobs page, find the migration job that you want to view and click Details in the Migration Result column.
In the View Migration Result dialog box, view the image check results.
For more information about image check items and suggestions on how to fix issues, see Image check items.
