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A healthcare diagnostics company is planning to migrate its hybrid application portfolio to AWS. The on-premises environment consists of 100 VMware vSphere VMs running supported Linux and Windows operating systems, and 15 legacy physical bare-metal servers running IBM AIX that host core databases. A strict corporate compliance policy prohibits installing any third-party agent software on the bare-metal database servers. The migration team needs to map network dependencies (such as active TCP connections and process-level interactions) for the entire application portfolio and track the migration progress in a centralized dashboard. Which strategy should the solutions architect recommend to collect the necessary discovery data while complying with all constraints?

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Deploy the AWS Agentless Collector as an OVA on VMware vCenter to discover both the VMs and the physical AIX servers, then configure network dependency mapping from the vCenter logs.
B
Install the AWS Application Discovery Agent on both the VMware VMs and the physical AIX servers, and configure them to route traffic through an on-premises HTTPS proxy with SSL decryption to meet the security requirements.
Deploy the AWS Application Discovery Agent on the VMware vSphere VMs to collect configuration, performance, and network connection data. For the bare-metal AIX servers, use the AWS Migration Hub Import template to manually upload server specification and dependency data, and track the migration of all servers in AWS Migration Hub.Answer
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Deploy the AWS Agentless Collector on VMware vCenter for VM discovery. For the bare-metal AIX servers, install the AWS Application Discovery Agent by utilizing the compatibility mode, and configure AWS Migration Hub to automatically merge the data.

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Deploy the AWS Application Discovery Agent on the VMware vSphere VMs to collect configuration, performance, and network connection data. For the bare-metal AIX servers, use the AWS Migration Hub Import template to manually upload server specification and dependency data, and track the migration of all servers in AWS Migration Hub.

The AWS Application Discovery Agent supports Windows and Linux operating systems running on VMware VMs and gathers system configuration, performance metrics, and network connection details (TCP dependencies), which is required to map network dependencies. Because the AWS Application Discovery Agent does not support IBM AIX and the database security policy prohibits installing agents on those servers, the migration team must use the AWS Migration Hub Import template to manually upload the server specifications and dependency details for the AIX servers. Both discovered and imported servers can then be tracked centrally within AWS Migration Hub.

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Determine the data collection requirements for mapping network dependencies across the application portfolio.

Identify that process-level network connection data (TCP relationships) is required.

Mapping network dependencies requires TCP connection details, which are collected by the Application Discovery Agent but not by the Agentless Collector.

Evaluate tool compatibility and constraints for the VMware vSphere VMs.

Select the AWS Application Discovery Agent for installation on the VMs.

The VMs run supported Linux and Windows operating systems, allowing the Application Discovery Agent to be installed to gather the required network connection details.

Evaluate tool compatibility and constraints for the IBM AIX bare-metal database servers.

Select the AWS Migration Hub Import template (CSV) for the AIX database servers.

The Application Discovery Agent does not support IBM AIX, and the database security policy prohibits agent installation. Utilizing the import template allows manual entry of server specs and dependencies.

Key Concept

AWS Application Discovery Service supports agent-based discovery for gathering network connection details on supported operating systems, and manual CSV imports for unsupported operating systems or environments with strict agent restrictions, both of which integrate with AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking.

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