Terms

• Hypervisor: Hypervisor is a software used to create virtual machines, It will have capabilities to create Virtual Network, Virtual Storage. There are two types of hypervisors
• Which run on existing Operating System. Examples (VmWare Workstation, Hyper-V, Virtual Box )
• Which act as Operating System and Create Virtual Machines (VMware Exsi/ VmWare VSphere )
• The above activity is also referred as Server Virtualization.
• Service: What Cloud Offers
• Resource: What we create using Service. We will be charged for this.
• Pilot: When we explore the possibilities of any thing also referred as Proof of Concept (POC).

What Can we Migrate?

Servers/Operating Systems

• Hypervisors: Azure Supports Migrations from
  • VmWare with VSphere to Azure VM
  • Hyper V to Azure VM
• Physical Servers:
  • Windows Servers to Azure VM
  • Supported Linux Kernels and Distributions to Azure VM.
• Other Clouds:
  • AWS
  • GCP

Database Migrations

• Database Migrations are supported for the following databases
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • mysql
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
• Database Migrations from other clouds
  • AWS
  • GCP

Migration Options

• Migrating directly from source by taking downtime
• Creating a replica of the source on-premise and migrating incrementally

6 R’s of Migration

• ReHosting: Lift and Shift: Migrate what ever is running/chosen exactly the same way as it used work onpremises on cloud.
• Replatforming: Lift, tinker, shift: Make smaller changes in the existing applications which might include changing platform.
• Refactoring: Rewirte/Re-architecture your application to suit to modern cloud computing options
• Repurchasing
• Retire
• Retain