The next phase in your migration project is planning cloud migration. You will use the information you gathered during the portfolio discovery phase to create an efficient migration plan. By the end of this phase in your migration project, you should be able to create an ordered backlog of applications that can migrate to the cloud.
The main goals of the migration planning phase include the following:
- Choosing a migration strategy
- Defining the success criteria for the migration
- Determining the right-sizing of the resources in the cloud
- Determining a priority for applications to migrate to the cloud
- Identifying migration patterns
- Creating a detailed migration plan, checklist, and schedule
- Creating migration sprint teams
- Identifying tools for migration
In preparation for the migration planning phase, you must perform a detailed discovery of all the IT assets that are part of your cloud migration portfolio. The target destination environment in the cloud is also...