Chapter 10
One of the first points to consider when planning any migration are the business drivers, and in this case, the main requirement is that you must be able to migrate workloads in a short space of time with a hard deadline. Therefore, opting for a lift-and-shift approach is possibly the safest route.
As there are many inter-dependencies between systems, the as-is architecture needs to be fully understood. Using Azure Migrate, combined with business owners' discussions and collating existing documentation, will help in this task.
Enabling the Service Map feature of an Azure Log Analytics workspace will involve some work upfront to install the necessary agents on VMs. However, the end report will provide greater clarity on interdependent services and substantially reduce risk when the migration occurs.
The DMA tool will also help you understand any potential problems of moving databases, which will help you define the database migration strategy.
Finally, once the...
