A bank is evaluating solutions for a Digital Transformation initiative that the new CEO is promoting.
The CIO believes that a DevOps Strategy is vital for this, and wants the architect's opinion on the best way to implement vRealize Automation as an IaaS solution given that the bank has the following infrastructure:
1.
Hyper-V 2012 R2 for all of the virtualization needs of the non-critical applications (three different clusters for development, test, and production)
2.
SCVMM 2012 R2 to manage its Hyper-V virtual environment
3.
vSphere 6.0 for the banking core applications (three dafferent clusters: development, test, and production)
4.
vCenter 6.0 to manage the VMware virtual environment
5.
An active Microsoft Azure subscription (assume no limitations here)
What should the architect recommend?
A. Deploy vRealize Automation in the vSphere cluster where the vCenter currently runs (production for the banking core applications), and deploy three endpoints: vCenter, SCVMM, and Azure.
B. Deploy vRealize Automation in a new management cluster with a new vCenter, connect the banking core vCenter as an endpoint, connect each Hyper-V hypervisor as an endpoint and connect Azure as an endpoint.
C. Create a VMware based management cluster, move the vCenter from the banking core to this cluster, deploy vRealize Auton1ation 7.2 there, and connect three endpoints: the banking core vCenter, SCVMM, and Azure.
D. Create a VMware-based management cluster separated from the production one, deploy vRealize Automation 7.2 there, connect the banking core vCenter as an endpoint, connect each Hyper-V hypervisor as an endpoint and connect Azure as an endpoint.