Assessing tooling

As explained in the preceding Identifying tools section, the inevitable roles played by these tools make the assessment, mapping, and savings calculation easier. Now we will evaluate each of these tools and see how they are used and what the use case scenarios are. We will start with Azure Migrate.

Azure Migrate

The purpose of Azure Migrate is already evident from Table 3.1. With the help of Azure Migrate, we can run environment discovery without installing any agents on the servers. If we install agents, we can also perform dependency analysis, which can be used to generate service maps. The best part of the assessment is that all of this is natively integrated into the Azure portal and you do not have to be dependent on any other portals.

Following the assessment, Azure Migrate generates an assessment report with the estimated cost, recommendations, and size of the VM that you will need to provision to match your on-premises configuration. Azure Migrate...