SAP-C02 Question #569: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

A company is planning to migrate its on-premises VMware cluster of 120 VMs to AWS. The VMs have many different operating systems and many custom software packages installed. The company also has an on-premises NFS server that is 10 TB in size. The company has set up a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection to AWS for the migration. Which solution will complete the migration to AWS in the LEAST amount of time?

Options

• AExport the on-premises VMs and copy them to an Amazon S3 bucket. Use VM Import/Export to
• BConfigure AWS Application Migration Service with a connection to the VMware cluster. Create a
• CRecreate the VMs on AWS as Amazon EC2 instances. Install all the required software packages.
• DOrder two AWS Snowball Edge devices. Copy the VMs and the NFS server data to the devices.

Explanation

The task is to migrate 120 diverse on-premises VMware VMs and 10 TB of NFS data to AWS in the least amount of time using an existing 10 Gbps Direct Connect.

Common mistakes.

• A. Using VM Import/Export requires exporting VMs one by one and then importing them, which can be time-consuming and complex for 120 VMs, especially with custom configurations.
• C. Manually recreating 120 EC2 instances and installing all software is an extremely time-consuming and error-prone process, contradicting the requirement for the least amount of time.
• D. AWS Snowball Edge is effective for large-scale data transfer, but it primarily moves data, not entire running server migrations, and would still require manual setup of EC2 instances from the migrated data, making it less efficient for VM migration than MGN.

Concept tested. Large-Scale VM Migration to AWS

Reference. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mgn/latest/ug/what-is-mgn.html

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