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Select existing workload scenario, part 1

Select existing workload scenario, part 1 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Select existing workload scenario, part 1

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- This scenario is going to be an interesting one based on the real-world reality that sometimes, you can't follow all the best practices because you have to deal with a legacy application. So let's go ahead and take a look at our details. A company has a legacy application deployed on-premises in VMware. This application must be migrated to AWS. The application license is tied to the MAC address of the instance and can be migrated once, but must remain static afterward. The software itself is discontinued, and the company has no access to the installation materials or support. How can the customer migrate the virtual machine while meeting the technical restrictions? So we have to keep in mind the ability to migrate the software once to a new MAC address. We need to understand that we have to take the virtual machine as-is, because we cannot reinstall the software. And that's going to give us quite a bit in the way of limitations. So what questions should we be asking? How can an…

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