220-1201 · Question #365
A company will retire a legacy application in one year but wants to decommission the physical environment now. Which migration method is best?
The correct answer is B. Performing a physical-to-virtual conversion and hosting on IaaS. P2V (physical-to-virtual) conversion allows the legacy application to be moved off its dedicated physical hardware while remaining operational. Hosting on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) means the application runs on virtual servers in a cloud provider's data center, which…
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A company will retire a legacy application in one year but wants to decommission the physical environment now. Which migration method is best?
Options
- ARelocating the server to a colocated data center
- BPerforming a physical-to-virtual conversion and hosting on IaaS
- CDeploying all components using PaaS
- DTaking a backup and shutting down the server
How the community answered
(62 responses)- A3% (2)
- B74% (46)
- C13% (8)
- D10% (6)
Explanation
P2V (physical-to-virtual) conversion allows the legacy application to be moved off its dedicated physical hardware while remaining operational. Hosting on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) means the application runs on virtual servers in a cloud provider's data center, which removes the company's need to maintain a physical environment on-premise. This approach is ideal for legacy systems nearing retirement because it requires minimal changes to the application itself (often referred to as a "lift and shift" migration), keeping it running for its final year without the burden of managing physical infrastructure.
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