Question

A company is rehosting several on-premises virtual machines from a VMware vSphere environment into a public cloud provider's IaaS platform. The cloud provider's native compute service does not run the VMware hypervisor and requires disk images in its own supported format before the instances can boot. Which action must the migration team perform to make the on-premises VM disks bootable as native cloud instances?

Accepted Answer

Use the provider's VM import/conversion service to convert the VMDK images into the cloud's supported machine image format

Answer

Attach the original VMDK files directly to new instances as boot volumes without any conversion

Answer

Refactor the applications into containers before any disk images can be migrated

Answer

Upload the VMDK files to object storage and mount them read-only as data disks to the running instances