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Exportrt Amazon EC2 instances to VMware Vsphere

hi to All of you,
we have several EC2 instances on Amazon (both Linux and Windows) and we would like to create a disaster recovery plan that in case of failure or management request, we can export a previously saved image to our on premises Vsphere 5.5 infrastructure .
I see that the VM Import/export tool from Amazon works only if the VM was previously imported into amazon http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/
Is it correct? do you know a valid software or service that can help us ?

Thank you
Carlettus

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Shalom Carmel

The EC2 export tool does not require that the instance be imported first. Here are links to the developer guide and command reference.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ExportingEC2Instances.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-CreateInstanceExportTask.html

Do read carefully all the setup instructions, especially about S3 permissions.

Carletto

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hello Shalomc,
I read the documentation but when I use the export command I get the following.
The setup went fine and the S3 buket was configured with grant Upload/Delete and View Permissions access to the vm-import-export@amazon.com account

Where am I doing wrong ?
thank you
Carlettus

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
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G:\>ec2-create-instance-export-task i-d34f0991 -e vmware -f vmdk -c ova -b backupzipbiov
Client.NotExportable: Only imported instances can be exported.

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