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Difficulty: MediumMigration Assessment and Strategy

An organization is planning to migrate an on-premises retail inventory system hosted on a VMware vSphere environment to Azure. The system consists of five web servers and a cluster of database servers. A strict security policy prohibits the installation of any software agents on the virtual machines during the assessment phase. You need to use Azure Migrate to discover the virtual machines, map their network dependencies, and assess their readiness for Azure.

Which two actions should you include in the assessment strategy? Choose two.

  1. Deploy the Azure Migrate appliance as a VMware Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) template on-premises.Answer
  2. Enable agentless dependency analysis and add guest operating system credentials to the Azure Migrate appliance.Answer
  3. C
    Install the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) and the Dependency agent on all virtual machines.
  4. D
    Configure an Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) infrastructure to authorize the dependency tracking connection.
  5. E
    Deploy a dedicated Azure SQL Database singleton to store and process the schema assessment reports.

Answer

Deploy the Azure Migrate appliance as a VMware Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) template on-premises and enable agentless dependency analysis by adding guest operating system credentials to the Azure Migrate appliance.
Deploying the Azure Migrate appliance as a VMware Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) template is the standard, agentless way to discover virtual machines on VMware vSphere. To analyze network dependencies without software agents, agentless dependency analysis must be configured. This requires adding guest operating system credentials to the Azure Migrate appliance so that it can query network connections via VMware Tools APIs.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze constraints and requirements.
Identified VMware vSphere hypervisor, requirement for agentless discovery, and requirement for dependency mapping without VM agents.
This establishes that only agentless mechanisms supported by Azure Migrate for VMware can be used.
2
Select the discovery method.
Choose the Azure Migrate appliance deployed via an OVA template.
The VMware OVA template is the standard, agentless method to deploy the Azure Migrate appliance in vSphere environments.
3
Select the dependency analysis method.
Choose agentless dependency analysis with VM guest credentials configured in the appliance.
Agentless dependency analysis uses VMware Tools and guest OS credentials to discover active network connections without installing agents on the VMs.

Key Concept

Azure Migrate agentless discovery and dependency mapping for VMware environments
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