Migration assessment
The migration journey continues by getting to know your current infrastructure. Assess is the first step in migration and, in this phase, we will be creating an inventory of our source. When we say source, this is not necessarily always on-premises. It could be other cloud vendors or platforms as well. The assessment tools available in Azure can be used to assess infrastructure in AWS, GCP, virtualized platform, and on-premises physical servers. The reason we need to perform the assessment is because we need to make sure what the migration of our workloads will look like post-migration.
The assessment consists of four steps along with a set of tools. Let's proceed and learn about these steps.
Preparing a cloud migration plan
As Benjamin Franklin said, "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." At first glance, migration may seem uncomplicated; however, if we start without planning and in the absence of a proper strategy, then migration...