A large corporation has owned several on-premise servers deployed in Europe. Recently, to save costs and add cloud servers for disaster recovery, it has a new strategy to migrate certain existing servers to AWS. To configure AWS servers smoothly, the DevOps team plans to use AWS Server Migration Service (SMS). Which scenario is NOT suitable to use SMS?

Answer options:

A.An Ubuntu16.04 linux server running in VirtualBox.
B.A Java application running in a virtual server in an vSphere Enterprise machine.
C.A Windows Server 2012 running in Microsoft Hyper-V.
D.A VM running in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Correct Answer – A
This question asks for the answer which is NOT suitable for AWS SMS. Please check the documentation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/server-migration-service/latest/userguide/server-migration.html
for the valid scenarios to use AWS Server Migration Service.
Option A is CORRECT: Oracle VirtualBox is not a supported candidate for SMS.
Options B and D are incorrect: Because servers in vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM, and Azure virtual machines can use Server Migration Service to replicate server VMs as AWS AMIs. Then EC2 instances can be created using the AMIs. The first step of migration is to set up the SMS Connector: