Run the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on an EC2 host to produce a TCO report

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Select existing workloads and processes for potential migration. Determine the optimal migration approach for existing workloads. Architect network connectivity strategies.

Short answer

B Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on a Windows EC2 instance and configure Migration Evaluator to produce the TCO report.

Question

A company wants to migrate virtual Microsoft workloads from an on-premises data center to AWS. The company has successfully tested a few sample workloads on AWS. The company also has created an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection to a VPC. A solutions architect needs to generate a total cost of ownership (TCO) report for the migration of all the workloads from the data center. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been enabled on each VM in the data center. The company cannot add more VMs in the data center and cannot install additional software on the VMs. The discovery data must be automatically imported into AWS Migration Hub. Which solution will meet these requirements?
  1. Use the AWS Application Migration Service agentless service and the AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations to generate the TCO report.
  2. Launch a Windows Amazon EC2 instance. Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on the EC2 instance. Configure Migration Evaluator to generate the TCO report. Correct Answer
  3. Launch a Windows Amazon EC2 instance. Install the Migration Evaluator agentless collector on the EC2 instance. Configure Migration Hub to generate the TCO report.
  4. Use the AWS Migration Readiness Assessment tool inside the VPC. Configure Migration Evaluator to generate the TCO report.

Key Takeaways

The Migration Evaluator agentless collector queries the existing SNMP interface from outside the data center, so it needs no agent installed on the VMs, and running it on an EC2 instance reachable through the VPN satisfies both the no-install and no-new-VM constraints.

A company needs a TCO report for migrating all on-premises virtual Microsoft workloads, has already tested samples and created a Site-to-Site VPN to a VPC, and has SNMP enabled on every VM. It cannot add VMs in the data center and cannot install software on the VMs, and the discovery data must be automatically imported into AWS Migration Hub.

Common mistake: Deploying the Application Migration Service agentless service. That discovers servers for replication planning but does not produce a TCO report, and Strategy Recommendations reports are not a cost-of-ownership output. Confusing which service owns the report is the main trap in this question.

Expert Analysis

Why the Answer Is Correct

The constraints point at the agentless approach. Because software cannot be installed on the VMs but SNMP is already enabled, the Migration Evaluator agentless collector can be run from outside the data center and gather inventory over SNMP. Launching a Windows EC2 instance and installing the collector there satisfies the no-additional-VM constraint, since the collector runs in AWS rather than in the data center, and the existing Site-to-Site VPN provides the network path to the on-premises SNMP interfaces. The collected data flows automatically into Migration Hub, and Migration Evaluator is the service that models that data and produces the financial forecast, which is the TCO report being asked for.

Why the Other Options Are Wrong

A: The Application Migration Service agentless service discovers servers for replication, and Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations reports are not a TCO output, so neither produces the required financial forecast. C: The deployment of the agentless collector in an EC2 instance is correct, but Migration Hub does not generate the TCO report, so the steps are right and the reporting service is wrong. D: The AWS Migration Readiness Assessment tool evaluates account and workload readiness against a target outcome, which is a readiness score rather than a cost-of-ownership financial model, so it cannot produce the TCO report the question specifies.

Community Comment Notes

The community voted 100 to 0 for B, and the top-voted comment linked the Migration Evaluator agentless collector overview PDF, noting it scans on-premises VMs using SNMP, which is exactly the enabled protocol in the scenario. One dissenting comment argued for C based on the idea that Migration Hub produces the report, and the majority response corrected that Migration Evaluator produces the TCO report while the other options do not produce TCO reports at all.

Official Reference

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/datasync/latest/userguide/choosing-datasync-agent.html

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Community Votes

B
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Discussion 5 contributions

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From public community threads 5

  1. thotwielder 👍 5 Answered B
    agentless collector to scan the on-premise VMs using SNMP: https://d1.awsstatic.com/migration-evaluator-resources/agentless_collector_overview.pdf Here lists Migration Evaluator as one of the tools for tco report: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/how-aws-pricing-works/aws-pricingtco-tools.html
  2. AWSPro1234 👍 3
    Answer is C. https://aws.amazon.com/migration-hub/faqs/ Migration Hub is the AWS service that analyzes collected data and produces the TCO report.
  3. pangchn 👍 1 Answered B
    B Migration Evaluator will generate a report. The finacial forecast (TCO) is included. Example of report can be found here https://aws.amazon.com/migration-evaluator/resources/
  4. Dgix 👍 1 Answered B
    A doesn't do TCO reports B is correct, uses SNMP and generates the report C doesn't do TCO reports D doesn't do TCO reports that way
  5. CMMC 👍 1 Answered B
    agentless collector to scan the on-premise VMs using SNMP to gather the data and generate the TCO report

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