Your company is planning to migrate their Windows Server 2022 from their on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You need to bring the licenses that are currently in use in on-premises virtual machines into the target cloud environment. What should you do?
A. 1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machines and upload into Cloud Storage.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine.
B. 1. Create standard instances on Compute Engine.
2. Select as the OS the same Microsoft Windows version that is currently in use in the on-premises environment.
C. 1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machine.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine.
3. Create a standard instance on Compute Engine, selecting as the OS the same Microsoft Windows version that is currently in use in the on-premises environment.
4. Attach a data disk that includes data that matches the created image.
D. 1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machines.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine using –os=windows-2022-dc-v.
3. Create a sole-tenancy instance on Compute Engine that uses the imported disk as a boot disk.
Disclaimer
This is a practice question. There is no guarantee of coming this question in the certification exam.
Answer
D
Explanation
A. 1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machines and upload into Cloud Storage.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine.
(Ruled out.)
B. 1. Create standard instances on Compute Engine.
2. Select as the OS the same Microsoft Windows version that is currently in use in the on-premises environment.
(Ruled out.)
C. 1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machine.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine.
3. Create a standard instance on Compute Engine, selecting as the OS the same Microsoft Windows version that is currently in use in the on-premises environment.
4. Attach a data disk that includes data that matches the created image.
(Ruled out.)
D. 1. Create an image of the on-premises virtual machines.
2. Import the image as a virtual disk on Compute Engine using –os=windows-2022-dc-v.
3. Create a sole-tenancy instance on Compute Engine that uses the imported disk as a boot disk.
(‘To create a VM instance that uses the custom BYOL image, you must provision the VM instance on a sole-tenant node.’
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/creating-custom-windows-byol-images#use_the_custom_image)