Migrations involve planning, executing, and optimizing workload migrations from on-premises data centers and other cloud platforms to Azure. The recommendations help organizations minimize migration risks, reduce costs, and achieve successful cloud adoption outcomes.
Plan migration
- Assess migration readiness and skills. Evaluate your team’s Azure capabilities across infrastructure, security, and application domains, then engage Microsoft partners or Azure solution architects to fill expertise gaps.
- Choose your data migration path. Select ExpressRoute for high-bandwidth transfers, VPN gateways for encrypted connections, Azure Data Box for offline migrations, or public internet for non-sensitive data.
- Determine the migration sequence. Map application dependencies using Azure Migrate, prioritize workloads by business criticality, and create migration schedules that avoid peak business periods.
- Choose the migration method for each workload. Select near-zero downtime migration for mission-critical workloads or planned downtime migration for applications that accommodate maintenance windows.
- Define rollback plan. Develop backup strategies with automated recovery scripts, establish rollback timeframes, and test recovery procedures in non-production environments.
- Engage stakeholders on migration plan. Document migration approaches with business justification, present tested rollback procedures, validate schedules against business constraints, and establish clear success criteria.
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