Server Migration to Azure: Introducing the New Integrated Portal
Microsoft has recently launched the latest version of Azure Migrate, which will help customers simplify and streamline their server migrations. The integrated portal has everything you need in one place, including server assessment, server migration, database assessment and database migration capabilities. As a result, the Azure Migrate hub is now a central hub for all your migration needs and tools.
What is in the new integrated portal?
The new portal provides access to Microsoft and Independent Software Vendors tools.
It will also help you identify the tools you need for your server migration.
If you're conducting a large-scale data centre migration, then you can get end-to-end progress tracking.
Get access to guided help for the most common migration scenarios.
All this results in a more integrated experience ensuring continuity and consistency in your data centre.
Azure Migrate: Server assessment
Server assessment is free for all Azure customers. With Azure Migrate: Server assessment, you can
Perform large scale VMware and Hyper-V data centre discovery and assessment for migration.
Assess performance-based rightsizing, application dependency analysis, migration cost planning and readiness analysis for VMWare and Hyper-V.
Azure Migrate: Server Migration
Again, Azure Migrate: Server Migration is cost-free for all Azure customers, as you only pay for the compute and storage you use in your Azure subscription.
Perform agentless migration of VMware VMs and Hyper-V VMs to Azure.
Perform agent-based physical server migrations and VMs to Azure. These can be running on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
During the migration, the assessment recommendations get added to the VMs to help you optimise your servers and save money.
As a result, you can achieve no-impact migration with zero data loss. So you can migrate with confidence.
Migration automation
Microsoft Azure helps businesses with digital transformation because it helps increase business innovation, resilience, agility and efficiency. Features like agentless migrations make migrating workloads swift and smile to plan and execute.
Azure Migrate PowerShell
Azure Migrate PowerShell is a new module made by Microsoft to help you automate the migration process and accelerate cloud migration. With this new tool, you will be able to configure and manage replication of VMware virtual machines to Azure, perform test migrations, and then migrate them to Azure virtual machines.
Automating your migrations will empower your business and application team. Microsoft ensures that your migration is safe, compliant and operationally efficient. For more information about server migration or any of your migration projects, contact Northstar today.
