Describe Azure Migrate
Having selected a strategy, Contoso is now ready to start their migration project. To help with this migration, Microsoft has provided a number of tools that they could use to perform their workload migration. The foremost of these is Azure Migrate.
What is Azure Migrate?
Azure Migrate is a set of features located in a centralized hub that you can use to assess and migrate different workloads to Azure. Workloads that can be migrated to Microsoft Azure include on-premises servers, infrastructure, applications, and data.
Azure Migrate components include:
- Unified migration platform. A single portal where you can perform migration to Azure and track the migration status.
- Assessment and migration tools. Azure migration tools consist of multiple assessment and migration tools, including Azure Migrate: Server Assessment and Azure Migrate: Server Migration and other independent software vendor (ISV) tools.
- Assessment and migration of different workloads. There are a number of different workloads that you can migrate with Azure Migrate hub, including:
- Servers. On-premises servers are assessed and migrated to Azure VMs.
- Databases. On-premises databases are assessed and migrated to Azure SQL Database or to an Azure SQL Database–managed instance.
- Web applications. On-premises web applications are assessed and migrated Azure App Service by using the Azure App Service Migration Assistant.
- Virtual desktops. On-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is assessed and migrated to Azure Virtual Desktop.
- Data. Large volumes of data are migrated to Azure by using Azure Data Box products.
How can you use Azure Migrate?
Azure Migrate can help with a number of migration scenarios. The one that Contoso selects depends on what they are trying to achieve. The six major migration scenarios are described in the following table.
| Scenario | Description |
|---|---|
| Windows Server workloads | These include moving on-premises roles such as file servers, containers, Active Directory roles, and DNS roles. It also includes migrating on-premises app VMs to Azure VMs using the Azure Migrate service. |
| SQL Server workloads | This involves app databases, Business Intelligence (BI) and other functionality running on SQL Server VMs. |
| Linux workloads | This migration scenario covers migrating RedHat or SUSE VMs, and Hadoop and Linux containers. |
| ASP.NET-PHP-Java apps | This includes customer-facing and internal-facing apps at the software as a service (SaaS) level. |
| SAP HANA | This covers a very specific vendor Enterprise Resource Planning system that uses a centralized database for various business processes. SAP HANA uses in-memory database technology that allows for processing massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine enables HANA to process data stored in random access memory (RAM), as opposed to reading it from a disk system that uses in-memory database technology to process massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk. |
| Specialized compute | This involves high-performance computing (HPC). |