Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to ensure that the technical requirements from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, have been completed in full. We will focus on the requirements, best practices, and high-level concepts in this chapter, and will be primarily reviewing areas of the Hyper-V Manager, the Azure Migrate appliance, and the Azure portal environment to follow the walk-throughs throughout this chapter, aligning with the AZ-801 exam objectives. This is primarily due to the Azure Migrate appliance performance requirements, which are beyond the scope of a standard lab machine configuration.

Let’s begin with an introduction to the Azure Migrate service and how it can be used to discover, assess and modernize existing on-premises virtual and physical machine workloads and migrate them to Microsoft...