Before creating a DTS task, you need to make specific preparations to meet the environment requirements. The following table describes the specific preparations.
| Item | Description | Required Operation |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Create an eSurfing Cloud account. | See Creating an eSurfing Cloud Account. |
| Databases | Prepare the source and destination databases and grant your account the required permissions. | Grant permissions to your account based on the types of the source and destination databases. |
| Network | The source database is deployed on an on-premises machine. | See From an On-premises Database to an eSurfing Cloud Database. |
| The source database is from a third-party cloud service provider. | See From a Third-party Cloud Database to an eSurfing Cloud Database. | |
| The source database is an eSurfing Cloud database. | See From an eSurfing Cloud Database to an eSurfing Cloud Database. | |
| The source database is a self-managed database hosted on an eSurfing Cloud Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) instance. | See From an ECS-hosted Self-managed Database to an eSurfing Cloud Database. |