SAP-C02 Practice Question 80: VMware Workloads Amazon EVS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) · Test 8 · question 10 of 10

Migration and Modernizationmedium

A company must leave its data center within six months. It runs about 400 virtual machines on VMware vSphere with NSX networking, and its operations team relies on vCenter tooling, existing runbooks and fixed IP addresses that many applications depend on. The team has no time to retrain staff or to change IP addresses, but it wants to be able to modernize individual workloads with AWS services after the move.

Which approach best meets these requirements?

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Answer:

C. Deploy Amazon EVS in a VPC, extend the on-premises network to it, and migrate the VMs into the VMware environment

You can use Amazon EVS *"to deploy and run a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment directly on EC2 bare metal instances within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud."* It is meant to *"remove migration friction and ensure operational consistency"*: customers *"extend on-premises networks and migrate workloads without having to change IP addresses, retrain staff, or re-write operational runbooks,"* and they can *"extend and expand your VMware environment with 200+ services"* to transform applications later (option C).

- A is wrong because EC2 rehosting moves the workloads out of the VMware stack, which means new operational tooling, retraining and re-IP work that the team cannot absorb in six months. - B is wrong because refactoring 400 VMs to Kubernetes cannot be done within the deadline and needs the retraining that the team lacks. - D is wrong because converting VMs to AMIs also leaves VMware and requires new networking, IP addressing and operations for every workload.

Reference: What is Amazon Elastic VMware Service?

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