Azure Migration Series- 09/Oct/2019

Need for migrations

• Companies would like to leverage cloud.
• Current infrastructure needs to be scaled.
• Business Expansion in various countries
  • Some countries have strict data rules
  • In those cases maintaining BCDR is extremely costly solution

Kinds of migrations

• Physical Servers to Physical Server
  • Not supported by cloud generally.
  • This can be acheived by CoLo (Co-Location)
• Physical Server to Virtual Servers (P2V)
• Virtual Servers to Virtual Servers (V2V)
  • Hyper-V
  • VmWare

Azure Solution

Azure Migrate: * Sources: * Server Migration * Physical Servers * Hyper-V * VmWare * AWS * Database Migration * Microsoft SQL Server * mySQL * Postgres * NoSQL

Alternatives

Azure migrate also allows to integrate with third parties to do migration.

Lab Setup (Simulate Migration)

• P2V Migration:
  • Linux Machine:
    • Install some application.
• V2V Migrations
  • HyperV
    • Windows 2016 Server
    • Enable HyperV
  • VmWare ESXI
  • Amazon

HyperV on Azure.

If you would like to have hyperV on Azure. Try here