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A company is migrating its three-tier web application from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company has the following requirements for the migration process:
✑ Ingest machine images from the on-premises environment.
✑ Synchronize changes from the on-premises environment to the AWS environment until the production cutover.
✑ Minimize downtime when executing the production cutover.
✑ Migrate the virtual machines' root volumes and data volumes.
Which solution will satisfy these requirements with minimal operational overhead?

A. Use AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) to create and launch a replication job for each tier of the application. Launch instances from the AMIs created by AWS SMS. After initial testing, perform a final replication and create new instances from the updated AMIs.
B. Create an AWS CLI VM Import/Export script to migrate each virtual machine. Schedule the script to run incrementally to maintain changes in the application. Launch instances from the AMIs created by VM Import/Export. Once testing is done, rerun the script to do a final import and launch the instances from the AMIs.
C. Use AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) to upload the operating system volumes. Use the AWS CLI import-snapshot command for the data volumes. Launch instances from the AMIs created by AWS SMS and attach the data volumes to the instances. After initial testing, perform a final replication, launch new instances from the replicated AMIs, and attach the data volumes to the instances.
D. Use AWS Application Discovery Service and AWS Migration Hub to group the virtual machines as an application. Use the AWS CLI VM Import/Export script to import the virtual machines as AMIs. Schedule the script to run incrementally to maintain changes in the application. Launch instances from the AMIs. After initial testing, perform a final virtual machine import and launch new instances from the AMIs.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by Nemer at Aug. 12, 2020, 11:37 a.m.

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Nemer

Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago

A. SMS for automated, live incremental replication of live server volumes.

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LunchTime

Highly Voted 3 years, 8 months ago

A is correct. SMS can handle migrating the data volumes: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/aws-server-migration-service-adds-support-for-migrating-larger-data-volumes/

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Heer

Most Recent 2 years, 7 months ago

Server Migration Service solely can do the following : Migrate Virtual machine i.e the volumes are also getting migrated , AWS SMS incrementally replicates your server VMs as cloud-hosted Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) ready for deployment on Amazon EC2. Right option is A

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roka_ua

3 years, 2 months ago

Vote A

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shotty1

3 years, 4 months ago

Selected Answer: A

It is A

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AzureDP900

3 years, 6 months ago

A is good

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WhyIronMan

3 years, 7 months ago

I'll go with A

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syc1205

3 years, 7 months ago

Ingest machine images from the on-premises environment. So B

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blackgamer

3 years, 7 months ago

A is the answer.

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Waiweng

3 years, 7 months ago

it's A

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alisyech

3 years, 7 months ago

A for sure

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Kian1

3 years, 7 months ago

going with A

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Trap_D0_r

3 years, 7 months ago

C I wouldn't wrap up every drive for every vm into one giant ami and the phrasing of A "launch a replication job for each tier of the application" is a little vague and sounds fishy to me. Personally C looks better--use SMS to create ami's from root volumes, snapshot and import data drives, create EC2s from amis and reattach data drives. Test and deploy. That makes more sense to me.

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Ebi

3 years, 7 months ago

First of all snapshot import is a feature of VM Export/Import not a feature of SMS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-import-snapshot.html Secondly, if you import snapshot you need a create a volume from snapshot,

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