Azure Migration

Migration Phases

Discover

Inventory of on-prem resources to plan where the migration should start
Tools: Azure Migrate Service, Database Migration Assistant
Answer to questions such as _What are my applications? How are they made up JAVA or .NET? Data structure, SQL VM or SQL? How will they look like in Azure?
You can use Azure partner discovery services such as Cloudamize, CloudSpace…

Migrate

Tools: Azure Site Discovery, Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Data Box
Deploy identity, network, storage, and compute infrastructure
- You move selected workloads to Azure.

Optimize

Fine tune your Azure-based workloads and maximize your ROI (Return on Investment).
Tools
- Azure management and security
  - E.g. • backup • monitoring • security • assessment
- Azure Cost Management
  - Create budgets and alerts with spending thresholds
  - Cost tracking, analysis
Security + performance improvements
3rd parties help with with backup, monitoring, security assessments, and cost management.

Arguments for migrating

No hardware obsolesce cycle: No need to sell hardware after a while
No pre-purchase capacity model, but pay for what you use.
Lack of IT agility
Desire to focus on core competencies
Expense of maintaining a global presence
Enable disaster-recovery scenarios: Geographically dispersed locations.