SAP-C02 · Question #777
A company is migrating its data center to the AWS Cloud and needs to complete the migration as quickly as possible. The company has many applications that are running on hundreds of VMware VMs in…
The correct answer is C. Create and review a portfolio in AWS Migration Hub. Order an AWS Snowcone device. Deploy. The company needs to rapidly migrate hundreds of VMware VMs with large shared file content, facing a compliance hurdle that prevents installing agents on individual VMs, despite having a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection.
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A company is migrating its data center to the AWS Cloud and needs to complete the migration as quickly as possible. The company has many applications that are running on hundreds of VMware VMs in the data center. Each VM is configured with a shared Windows folder that contains common shared files. The file share is larger than 100 GB in size. The company's compliance team requires a change request to be fled and approved for every software installation and modification to each VM. The company has an AWS Direct Connect connection with 10 GB of bandwidth between AWS and the data center. Which set of steps should the company take to complete the migration in the LEAST amount of time?
Options
- AUse VM ImporvExport to create images of each VM. Use AWS Application Migration Service to
- BDeploy the AWS Application Discovery Service agentless appliance to VMware vCenter. Review
- CCreate and review a portfolio in AWS Migration Hub. Order an AWS Snowcone device. Deploy
- DDeploy the AWS Application Discovery Service Agent and the AWS Application Migration Service
How the community answered
(43 responses)- A12% (5)
- B26% (11)
- C58% (25)
- D5% (2)
Why each option
The company needs to rapidly migrate hundreds of VMware VMs with large shared file content, facing a compliance hurdle that prevents installing agents on individual VMs, despite having a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection.
VM Import/Export is a manual and time-consuming process for hundreds of VMs, and AWS Application Migration Service relies on agents, which conflicts with the compliance policy.
AWS Application Discovery Service is primarily for discovery and planning, not for performing the actual migration itself.
Option C leverages an AWS Snowcone device for physical data transfer, which is often the fastest method for migrating extremely large volumes of data (hundreds of VMs with large file shares) to AWS, even with a 10 Gbps Direct Connect. This approach also avoids installing agents on individual VMs, bypassing the compliance requirement for software installations and speeding up the overall migration process.
Deploying agents for AWS Application Discovery Service and AWS Application Migration Service directly contradicts the compliance requirement that makes software installations on VMs slow due to required approvals.
Concept tested: Large-scale VM migration strategies, data transfer with AWS Snow Family, agentless migration
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/
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