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Today, what the editor shares with you is the detailed introduction of Azure Migrate. I believe most people don't know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor summed up the following content for you. Without saying much, let's move on.

Azure Migrate service is an official migration assessment tool launched by Microsoft. Using Azure Migrate service, we can evaluate the local workloads that we want to migrate to Azure. Azure Migrate will help us assess whether the local computer is suitable for migration to Azure, recommend the size of the migrated VM based on the local configuration or running workload of the VM, and provide a cost estimate for migrating the local workload to Azure.

Using Azure Migrate can help us do the following:

Evaluate Azure Readiness: evaluate whether internal machines are suitable for running in Azure. Get size recommendations: get size recommendations for Azure virtual machines based on the performance history of on-premises virtual machines. Estimated monthly cost: get the estimated cost of running the local machine in Azure. Migrate with high confidence: visualize the dependencies of the local machine to create a group of machines that you will evaluate and migrate together.

I believe many friends are curious about Azure Migrate after reading the above introduction, so let's take a look at the workflow of Azure Migrate, as shown in the following figure:

Azure Migrate uses a local VM called Collector device to discover information about the local computer. To get the collector device, we can download the corresponding OVA file in the Azure Migrate project and import it into VCenter and configure it accordingly.

After the configuration is complete, we can use the collector device to evaluate the VM, and the collector uses VMware PowerCLI cmdlet to collect VM metadata. The discovery of Azure Migrate is agentless discovery and nothing is installed on the VMware host or VM. The metadata collected includes VM information (cpu, memory, disk, disk size, network adapter). In addition, performance data for VM is collected, including CPU and memory usage, disk IOPS, disk throughput (MBps), network output (MBps), and so on.

The collector pushes the collected metadata to the Azure Migrate project and outputs the results after Azure Migrate project analysis and processing.

Once we have set up the evaluation criteria, Azure Migrate will process and output the results. The report focuses on three main results, namely, Azure readiness, overall monthly cost estimates, and storage monthly cost estimates.

Through the Azure preparation section of the report, we can find information about whether Azure supports existing operating system versions, Azure VM Size, and the recommended Azure migration tools available.

We can view all of this information in the Overview interface, or we can take a closer look at each VM to learn more about how and why some of the content recommended by Azure. Things like disk reading and disk writing are broken down, and we can see how it translates into the monthly cost of Azure. Here is an example of my test environment:

When we start using Azure Migrate services, we need to keep in mind the following things: the product is free, we can use it for days, months, weeks, years, and it doesn't cost a penny. This is a good starting point if we try to build a business case that shows the leadership the readiness and associated costs to move the workload to Azure. Currently, the tool only supports evaluating VMware virtual environments, and support for Hyper-V and physical servers is on the roadmap. When using this tool in a VMware environment, it is important to note that it must be managed by a vCenter server and run version 5.5, 6.0, or 6.5. Each Azure Migrate project allows a maximum of 1500 vm to be found in a discovery project, which means that we can evaluate up to 150 VM at a time. Azure migration is currently only supported in some areas of Global, but this does not affect where we migrate the workload after the assessment.

Azure Migrate is a good discovery assessment tool that can be used to assess our environment, help us understand the potential costs involved in migrating workloads to Azure, and understand any migration risks and available migration methods.

After reading the above, do you have any further understanding of Azure Migrate? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel. Thank you for reading.

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