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