How to Import VMware Virtual Machine to Amazon EC2

How to Import VMware Virtual Machine to Amazon EC2

1)
Install ec2-api-tools_1.6

#wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/111617788/ec2-api-tools_1.6.1.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb

#sudo dpkg -i ec2-api-tools_1.6.1.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb

2)
Check the Version of ec2-api-tools

#ec2-version

3)
Download Vitual Machine from ESXi node in ovf format

#ovftool vi://root:welcome@192.168.12.154/win2k-r2 win2k-r2.ovf

4)
Export Aws Access and Secret keys

#export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

#export AWS_SECRET_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

5)
Create EC2 Instance using *.vmdk

#ec2-import-instance win2k-r2-disk1.vmdk -f VMDK -t m1.small -a x86_64 -b import-export -o $AWS_ACCESS_KEY -w $AWS_SECRET_KEY --region us-west-1

6)
Check the Progress of the task

#ec2-describe-conversion-tasks import-i-ffm2nty0 -O $AWS_ACCESS_KEY -W $AWS_SECRET_KEY --region us-west-1

7)
Resume task

#ec2-resume-import win2k-r2-disk1.vmdk -t import-i-ffm2nty0 -o $AWS_ACCESS_KEY -w $AWS_SECRET_KEY --region us-west-1

8)
Remove the image from S3, when the task completed

#ec2-delete-disk-image -t import-i-ffm2nty0 -o $AWS_ACCESS_KEY -w $AWS_SECRET_KEY --region us-west-1