Exam Professional Cloud Database Engineer topic 1 question 3 discussion

Google Cloud VMware Engine allows you to run your VMware workloads natively on Google Cloud without requiring changes to your applications or infrastructure. This is ideal for minimizing disruption and maintaining compatibility with your current Oracle application footprint.

Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) provides a fully compatible VMware environment in the cloud.

obviously A

Lift , shift. Correct andswer is A.

Classic lift and lift. Everything keeps the same structure. Therefore minimizing impact to zero.

A. The key here is the current architecture and minimal disruption to it. The simplest way to keep the current architecture is a live migrate using VMware. That can only mean one thing, use Oracle running in GCVE. You could do B. There's nothing stopping you creating a VM in GCE, copying the Oracle binaries to it and spinning up an Oracle database or several. However, the licensing costs would not be attractive (if even supported), plus the migration would likely be disruptive. C is wrong because Cloud SQL doesn't support Oracle. D is wrong because that represents an architecture change.

Since there is no Bare Metal for Oracle option and VMware mentioned -> Choose VMware

Here is the explanation: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/migrate-databases-to-google-cloud-vmware-engine-gcve

A GCVE VMware environment runs natively on Google Cloud bare metal infrastructure in some Google Cloud locations, and the GCVE service includes all the features required to help consume the VMware platforms efficiently and securely . https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/migrate-databases-to-google-cloud-vmware-engine-gcve

Oracle databases can only be migrated to bare metal solutions