PAS-C01 · Question #139
A company has an SAP Business One system that runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. The company wants to migrate the system to AWS. An SAP solutions architect selects a homogeneous migration st
The correct answer is D. Install the missing drivers on the source system. Wait for the completion of migration. When a migrated instance fails status checks after CloudEndure migration to an R5 instance, the root cause is missing OS-level drivers required by the target EC2 instance type that were not present on the source server.
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A company has an SAP Business One system that runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. The company wants to migrate the system to AWS. An SAP solutions architect selects a homogeneous migration strategy that uses AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration). After the server migration process is finished, the SAP solutions architect launches an Amazon EC2 test instance from the R5 instance family. After a few minutes, the EC2 console reports that the test instance has failed an instance status check. Network connections to the instance are refused. How can the SAP solutions architect solve this problem?
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- AReboot the instance to initiate instance migration to another host.
- BRequest an instance limit increase for the AWS Region where the test instance is being launched.
- CCreate a ticket for AWS Support that documents the test server instance ID. Wait for AWS to
- DInstall the missing drivers on the source system. Wait for the completion of migration
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(22 responses)- A14% (3)
- B9% (2)
- C5% (1)
- D73% (16)
Why each option
When a migrated instance fails status checks after CloudEndure migration to an R5 instance, the root cause is missing OS-level drivers required by the target EC2 instance type that were not present on the source server.
Rebooting the instance does not resolve missing OS-level drivers; the instance will continue to fail status checks on any host because the problem exists within the guest operating system itself, not the underlying EC2 hardware.
An instance limit increase is the appropriate action when AWS prevents launching an instance due to service quotas, not when an already-launched instance fails internal status checks and refuses network connections due to driver issues.
AWS Support cannot install or remediate missing drivers inside a customer's EC2 guest OS; OS-level driver installation is the customer's responsibility and this approach would introduce unnecessary delay without resolving the underlying cause.
R5 instances require the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) driver for enhanced networking and NVMe drivers for EBS storage access, which are typically not present on a physical server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3. Installing these required drivers on the source system before the next replication cycle allows CloudEndure to replicate the updated OS state, and relaunching the test instance after synchronization completes will resolve both the status check failures and the refused network connections.
Concept tested: Missing ENA/NVMe drivers causing EC2 status check failure after migration
Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking-ena.html
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