Introduction

  • 2 minutes

Azure Architects need to design and recommend migration solutions. They need to assess configuration and management requirements for virtual machine, database, and application workloads to design suitable migration strategies for on-premises workloads.

Meet Tailwind Traders

Tailwind Traders is a fictitious home improvement retailer that operates retail hardware stores across the globe and online. The company currently manages on-premises datacenters to host their retail website. These datacenters also store all the data and streaming video for the company applications.

The IT department is currently responsible for all management tasks for the company's computing hardware and software. The team handles the procurement process to buy new hardware, installs and configures software, and deploys everything throughout the datacenter. These management responsibilities create some obstacles for delivering applications to Tailwind Traders' users and customers in a timely fashion. You're tasked with reviewing available migration options. You need to determine the appropriate options to support the planned migrations for workloads on virtual machines, databases, and applications.

Learning objectives

In this module, you learn how to:

  • Evaluate migration with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

  • Describe the Azure Migration and Modernization Program (Azure Migration Framework).

  • Assess your on-premises workloads.

  • Select a migration tool.

  • Migrate your databases.

  • Select an online storage migration tool.

  • Migrate offline data.

Skills measured

The content in the module helps you prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. The module concepts are covered in:

Design infrastructure solutions

  • Design migrations

    • Evaluate a migration solution that uses the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

    • Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration.

    • Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).

    • Recommend a solution for migrating databases.

    • Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data.

Prerequisites

  • Conceptual knowledge of migrating compute, database, and storage workloads.

  • Working experience with planning migrations, assessing workloads, determining migration requirements, and deploying workloads.