Question
Transferring all of a customer's on-premises data and virtual machines to an appliance, and then shipping it to a cloud provider is a technique used in a:
- A. phased migration approach.
- B. replatforming migration approach.
- C. rip and replace migration approach.
- D. lift and shift migration approach. Correct
Explanation
Lift and shift (rehosting) moves workloads and their data to the cloud as they are, without changing the applications, and bulk-copying existing VMs and data onto a shipped transfer appliance is a common way to do it. Rip and replace discards the existing systems and replaces them with new cloud-native or SaaS solutions, so the existing VMs would not be moved at all. Replatforming makes some optimizations during the move, and a phased approach moves workloads in stages rather than all at once.
