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A manufacturing company plans to migrate its on-premises VMware vCenter environment, which hosts 500 virtual machines, to AWS. To plan the migration, the company needs to collect server configuration, CPU/memory utilization, and disk I/O performance data to estimate sizing and run cost assessments. The company also needs to track the migration progress directly within AWS Migration Hub. The company's security policy strictly prohibits the installation of any software agents on the guest operating systems of the virtual machines. Which action should a solutions architect recommend to discover the on-premises servers while complying with the security policy?

  1. Deploy the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector as a virtual appliance in the VMware vCenter environment to gather VM metadata and utilization data.Answer
  2. B
    Install the AWS Application Discovery Agent on all virtual machines using a group policy object or automated shell scripts.
  3. C
    Deploy the AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) replication agent on the vCenter host to automatically discover the VM inventory and map dependencies.
  4. D
    Order an AWS Snowball Edge device to run the Discovery Connector locally and physically transfer the vCenter database to AWS.

Answer

Deploy the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector as a virtual appliance in the VMware vCenter environment to gather VM metadata and utilization data.
Deploying the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector as an OVA template in the VMware vCenter environment allows the solutions architect to gather VM metadata, disk I/O, and CPU/memory utilization statistics directly from vCenter APIs. This completely avoids installing any agents on the guest operating systems, adhering to the strict compliance policy while providing all necessary data for tracking and migration planning in AWS Migration Hub.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the business and compliance constraints.
Identify that installing guest OS-level software agents is prohibited by the security team.
This rules out any agent-based discovery solutions.
2
Evaluate the source environment and target data requirements.
The source is a VMware vCenter environment, and the required data includes server configuration, CPU/RAM utilization, and disk I/O.
This determines that an agentless solution running at the hypervisor or vCenter level is suitable.
3
Select the correct AWS discovery tool that integrates with AWS Migration Hub.
Select the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Collector, which runs as a VMware virtual appliance (OVA) and queries the vCenter APIs.
It collects configuration and utilization metadata without installing guest OS agents, complying with the security policy while feeding data directly into AWS Migration Hub.

Key Concept

Agentless Discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
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Migration Discovery, Planning, and Tracking (Application Discovery Service, Migration Hub)

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