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.
- Linux Machine:
- V2V Migrations
- HyperV
- Windows 2016 Server
- Enable HyperV
- VmWare ESXI
- Amazon
- HyperV
HyperV on Azure.
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