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A logistics company is preparing to migrate its on-premises VMware vCenter environment to AWS. The security compliance policy strictly prohibits the installation of any local software agents or third-party monitoring utilities on production virtual machines. The solutions architect needs to perform an initial discovery of virtual machine configurations and resource utilization (CPU, memory, and disk) to generate sizing recommendations in AWS Migration Hub. Which of the following discovery configurations should the solutions architect implement to satisfy the compliance policy and collect the necessary data?

  1. Deploy the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector as a virtual appliance in the VMware environment to collect configuration and utilization metadata.Answer
  2. B
    Install the AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) replication agent on each production virtual machine to continuously discover dependencies and track resource utilization.
  3. C
    Configure AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with Change Data Capture (CDC) on the database servers to dynamically discover and map application dependencies.
  4. D
    Execute the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) to perform a replatforming assessment of the entire application virtual machine fleet and export the results to AWS Migration Hub.

Answer

Deploy the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector as a virtual appliance in the VMware environment to collect configuration and utilization metadata.
The correct answer is correct because the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector is deployed as a VMware OVA virtual appliance. It communicates directly with VMware vCenter to collect VM-level metadata, configuration, and performance history without installing any software inside the guest operating systems, satisfying the compliance requirement. The other options either require agent installation or are incorrect services for general server discovery.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the migration discovery constraints.
On-premises environment uses VMware vCenter, and the security policy strictly prohibits agent installation on the production virtual machines.
This rules out any agent-based discovery mechanisms (such as the Application Discovery Agent or other replication agents).
2
Evaluate AWS Application Discovery Service options.
The Agentless Collector is designed for VMware vCenter and runs as an OVA appliance, gathering VM configuration and utilization metrics without local agents.
It meets both the virtualization platform capability and the compliance constraint.
3
Differentiate from replication and database assessment tools.
AWS DMS, MGN agents, and SCT are ruled out as they do not serve the target purpose of agentless server infrastructure discovery.
Choosing the Agentless Collector is the only compliant and appropriate configuration for initial discovery.

Key Concept

AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector vs. Agent-based discovery under security constraints
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Migration Discovery, Planning, and Tracking (Application Discovery Service, Migration Hub)

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