Your company uses a hybrid environment to host its infrastructure and services. Applications are mainly deployed in AWS. As a part of the company strategy, certain Amazon EC2 instances need to be exported through the VM Import/Export tool as OVA files and deployed in the on-premises VMware vSphere environment. How would you use the VM Import/Export tool in the right way?

Answer options:

A.Use the VM Import/Export tool to install the Server Migration Connector, generate ova files and migrate the EC2 instances to VMware vSphere.
B.Use the VM Import/Export tool to deploy the AWS discovery tools in EC2 instances and trigger migration jobs to VMware vSphere.
C.Use the “aws ec2 create-instance-export-task” command to export EC2 instances and store the exported ova files in an S3 bucket.
D.Use the “aws ec2 export-image” command to export EC2 instances and download the exported ova files in a local disk.

Correct Answer: C
Option A is incorrect because Server Migration Connector is a component of AWS Server Migration Service, and it is not used by the VM Import/Export tool.
Option B is incorrect because the VM Import/Export tool cannot be used to deploy the AWS discovery tools. Discovery Tools are used by AWS Migration Hub to plan the migration from data centers to AWS.
Option C is CORRECT because VM Import/Export uses the AWS CLI command “aws ec2 create-instance-export-task” to export an EC2 instance. i.e. “aws ec2 create-instance-export-task --instance-id my-instance-id --target-environment vmware --export-to-s3-task file://C:\file.json”. This CLI command creates an OVA file in an S3 bucket. The OVA file will be used to launch VMs in VMware vSphere.
Option D is incorrect because “aws ec2 export-image” is used to export a VM directly from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Please refer to the below.
References:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport_image.html