A system administrator is migrating a bare-metal server to the cloud. Which of the following types of migration should the systems administrator perform to accomplish this task?

V2V (Virtual-to-Virtual) migration moves workloads between two existing virtual environments, so it does not apply when the source is a physical bare-metal server.

V2P (Virtual-to-Physical) is the reverse process - converting a virtual machine back to physical hardware - which is the opposite of what is required here.

P2P (Physical-to-Physical) involves relocating a workload from one physical server to another physical server, not to a cloud or virtual platform.

P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) migration converts a physical server's operating system, applications, and data into a virtual machine image suitable for deployment in a virtualized or cloud environment. Because the source is a bare-metal server (physical hardware) and the destination is the cloud (a virtualized platform), P2V is the precise migration category that applies. This process typically involves capturing the physical disk state and converting it to a virtual disk format such as VMDK or VHD.