Vinchin is one of the easiest solution to migrate cloud instance to on-premise virtualization platform. You can easily migrate AWS EC2 instance and Huawei EC2 instance to 15+ kinds of virtualization platform according to your needs. The general process includes backing up the cloud instance and then directly restore it on the target on-premise host.

Supported Platform:

Vinchin currently supports C2V migration for AWS EC2, Huawei ECS, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, oVirt, OLVM, RHV, Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer), XCP-ng, ZStack, OpenStack, Sangfor HCI, H3C CAS/UIS, Huawei FusionCompute, etc.

Installation & Configuration

You can get the installation package on the download page and then install it on a virtual machine or physical machine.

After that, upload the license that we send to you in the email.

Add backup storage before creating a migration job.

Host Adding:

You need to add both platforms to the backup system for later migration.

You can add the cloud platform and the on-premise host with their credentials. Some of the virtualization platforms requires Vinchin plugin installed on them. You can refer to our HelpCenter.

Backup the source cloud instance:

First, you need to backup the source cloud instance in 4 steps.

Select the cloud instance you want to backup.
Choose backup storage.
Set the backup policy.
Submit the task.

Restore the instance to the target virtualization platform:

Then you can use the backup data to migrate the cloud instance to target host.

Select the created backup data
Select the target host
Select strategies or just skip it
Submit the job

Demonstration:

For the detailed steps, you can also refer to this video which takes AWS EC2 to VMware migration as an example:

If you still have questions after referring to our documentations and videos, please start a thread in this section or contact our technical support team at customer.service@vinchin.com for assistance.