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Azure Migrate for infrastructure engineers

From discovery and assessment to cutover: moving VMware, Hyper-V and physical servers to Azure with Azure Migrate.

Coming soon

The first part is being written

The plan below shows what is coming.

Series content

  1. Getting startedComing soon
    1. What Azure Migrate is and when to use itNext
    2. Creating a project and planning the discoverySoon
  2. Discovery and assessmentComing soon
    1. Discovering VMware, Hyper-V and physical servers with the applianceSoon
    2. Dependency analysis: agentless and agent-basedSoon
    3. Assessments: sizing, readiness and costSoon
    4. Building the business caseSoon
  3. MigrationComing soon
    1. Migrating VMware virtual machines without agentsSoon
    2. Agent-based migration for physical serversSoon
    3. Test migrations, cutover and rollbackSoon
  4. After the moveComing soon
    1. Post-migration checks and optimisationSoon
About this series

A practical series for engineers who run on-premises estates and now need to move them to Azure. It follows the order of a real project: discover what you have, map dependencies, assess size and cost, migrate in waves, and check everything afterwards.

The first part is being written. The plan below shows what is coming.