Azure Migrate - #7 - Server Assessments

[@haithamchatta7615]

This is Cool Dean !

[@AzureAcademy]

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[@kashifaliuk]

Excellent and very well explained video in plain English, normally in other videos instructors skip important parts such as you explained clearly about Azure readiness properties in details...amazing ...you are the Guru sir.

[@kashifaliuk]

It was too much and confusing to read MS docs and perform this demo, and with your demo it was piece of cake...thx again

[@AzureAcademy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AzureAcademy]

agreed...I always like to show the docs to help you find what is relevant but I learn better watching a video then I do reading the docs...so hopefully my combination of the 2 work well for everyone.

[@Jerrel.A]

Excellent. Nicely narrated.

[@AzureAcademy]

thanks Jerrel

[@SatishKumar-ut4pu]

Nice one Sir

[@AzureAcademy]

Thanks!

[@abulaith4485]

Brilliant. Very informative. Thank you

[@AzureAcademy]

Thanks for the feedback, I hope it is a help to you

[@cloudmasterlive]

Excellent video. Thanks for making it.

[@AzureAcademy]

Glad you liked it!

[@abdulrashid3339]

Excellent, very useful.

[@AzureAcademy]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@raju421982]

Thank you

[@AzureAcademy]

Anytime!

[@hansns4982]

Thanks for the great video, can we have the separate appliances point to single Azure Migrate project? (2 separate appliances point to single Azure Migrate project)

[@AzureAcademy]

You can scale multiple appliances under a single project, but if you have different projects that should be analyzed and migrated separately then you need different projects and different appliances

[@hasanreza0]

Salute !

[@AzureAcademy]

Huzzah!

[@sergiolopez3975]

Hello Dean, one quick question. Does Azure Migrate provide Networking costs based on the scanned servers? I have tried to review the documentation but I did not find anything of value and I see in the video that we have data regarding Networking input and output.

[@AzureAcademy]

Azure networking cost can come from many places. There is no direct networking cost for a VM. When a VM sends data somewhere, it could be to the internet, on prem, or another resource in the same virtual network or a different virtual network. Some of those scenarios have cost, others don’t. And since Azure Migrate assessment on existing VMs it won’t know where that traffic would go once the VM is in the cloud…so, NO Azure Migrate won’t show networking cost…great question!

[@sergiolopez3975]

@@AzureAcademy Thank you for your response Dean. I was thinking something similar but that explains the complexity to establish a Networking cost and therefore the exclusion of this cost in Azure Migrate output.

[@AzureAcademy]

If everything you have is in Azure network cost are low. If you communicate with internet, costs are a little higher.

[@ahmadalnoor4533]

Simple and clear, thanks a lot, just one question. is the agent still required to discover dependencies?

[@AzureAcademy]

It is not required, but it is recommended. if you move a database server without knowing that there are 3 other applications that rely on that database things will break. However, if you are taking down time on everything and do a move over a weekend then the dependencies do not matter because everything is moving.

[@maugamo9]

Hello Dean, thanks for all of this, this is amazing. I wanted to ask you how did you make it so that Hyper-V VHD recognizes your "on prem" VMs and communicate to Azure, in this setup you have is it just connectivity to the internet into Azure or do you have a S2S built, or ExR? Or is it just some VMs inside the Hyper-V?

[@AzureAcademy]

This video was a while ago...I believe at the time I sent the traffic directly over the internet...or my VPN. But any of those scenarios and ER work

[@surajsgk9198]

Hii sir its nice to see the azure tutorial here, its been fun learning azure. I have a request for azure physical servere migration tutorial video. I will wait for the same. Thank you

[@AzureAcademy]

I cover migrating a VM into Azure in the next video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bneTe2BnrJyZj6M But Azure Migrate of physical servers is slightly different...let me look into it...stay tuned

[@surajsgk9198]

@@AzureAcademy okay sir thanks

[@AzureAcademy]

👍😁👍

[@eternallife8001]

Thanks for the video, My manager wants dependency report to analyse the ports being used in a excel sheet so that same can be opened at target firewall/Vnet, How to download the report ?

[@AzureAcademy]

I’m not sure of hand if you can in Migrate This is because the VMs are analyzed by themselves. I would assume that any firewall rules you had on prem would need to carry over to Azure if you aren’t sure what to use

[@babylonaliking]

Sound like proffesor Messar!

[@AzureAcademy]

Is that a good thing?

[@babylonaliking]

@@AzureAcademyit is awesome,

[@AzureAcademy]

NICE!

[@raviv1953]

Hello ! this is nice. how about physical machine migration.? previously we use OMS ( backup and site recovery) for that. so with this process we can ignore ASR ?

[@AzureAcademy]

Physical is the same general process You discover the machines, install the agent, migrate the data, then you can Failover...failback May be tricky depending on the scenario

[@raviv1953]

@@AzureAcademy nice...i think we can ignore the agent based migration right...?

[@AzureAcademy]

@@raviv1953 in most scenarios YES you can...but if you need more detailed data the agent is there for you

[@raveendrav460]

@@AzureAcademy Thank you :). can you help me with the below migrations: Servers,Databases,Web applications, Virtual desktops,Data box . If you have already done the above, share the links please. :)

[@AzureAcademy]

Am working on AVS videos now. VDI - Check out my WVD Series - aka.ms/AzureAcademy-AZ140

[@kingsadmin]

nice one!

[@AzureAcademy]

Thanks...let me know what else you want to learn about so I can make more videos

[@kingsadmin]

@@AzureAcademy ​ Do you have any sort of references, best practices, tools, on how to discover, assess and migrate resources from brownfield to greenfield Azure please?

[@AzureAcademy]

I don't have any resources outside of my videos and the Azure Docs. The migration of anything outside of Azure going into Azure is what Azure Migrate does. Anything Migrating within Azure is what Azure Site Recovery does. Where is your "brownfield" environment...inside or outside of Azure?

[@kingsadmin]

​@@AzureAcademy Its inside Azure. thanks

[@AzureAcademy]

cool...👍

[@dopod07]

What method should i use for VMware VMs to migrate across from MSP environment. MSP will most likely NOT allow to have OVA used in the environment as their other customers are using the ESX hosts.

[@AzureAcademy]

If you are wanting to get out of your MSP environment then I suggest you talk to them on how to migrate out of there...also if you can’t get the Azure migrate appliance in their environment then can you take a copy of the .vmdk hard drive files? If you can then you can convert them to .vhd and upload them to Azure as a form of migration

[@dopod07]

@@AzureAcademy I think 2nd option would be to get them back up directly into Azure. Downside is no assessment or what so ever. What do you reckon Dean?

[@AzureAcademy]

If you need to move fast you can. Skip the assessment and move everything as it is. Then go back later and size the VMs correctly

[@ramisohail]

Hi Dean, do you know if this will work with windows 10 Hyper-v or with Vmware Workstation free or Pro to Assess and do a replication through azure migrate? i am thinking if he doesnt recognize them as vms within a host it will at least recognize them as physical server even though they aren't of course

[@AzureAcademy]

Not sure...but in theory I think it should because it will setup a vm inside your hyper-v but it probably NOT supported...but I think it should work

[@jagadeeskumarlenin5517]

Like this video can you help for migrate hyper-v from onprem to azure using azure migrate via private endpoint.

[@AzureAcademy]

Is the issue the private endpoint for you or the entire scenario?

[@rinishm2664]

Don't we have an option here to push the agents to machine just like ASR does for mobility agents ?

[@AzureAcademy]

Not needed in Azure Migrate. It can do an agentless migration.

[@markscuka3797]

Relating to the 2016 replication server, can I use my 2016 VM in my V-NET as long as it can see the target servers on prem through the VPN gateway? Wondering if this is a recommended or supported option as we don't have 2016 servers on prem?

[@AzureAcademy]

The guidance is to download the replication server locally and let it run nearest to the target VMs. I have not tried to put it into Azure and am not sure if it work in...but you can try it. The only thing I can think of it impacting is performance. this will make the replication server processing of the data take longer. You will now be making multiple data calls to the on prem systems to Azure instead of multiple calls locally and 1 stream to Azure.

[@ayushimehra2741]

Hi @azureacademy. I want to know that which DB does Azure Migrate uses during Discovery?

[@AzureAcademy]

you mean the Azure Migrate appliance Database or do you mean the database in the cloud that all the migration data is stored in?

[@ayushimehra2741]

@@AzureAcademy No not during migration, but during initial discovery phase when all the on-premises servers and workloads are identified. In which database all this Metadata is stored?

[@AzureAcademy]

@@ayushimehra2741 if the VMs are all in the same vcenter, then you need 1 migration appliance. to perform the migration you should check on the numbers of VMs and the size to know how many appliances you need to get things done in the timeframe you have

[@duker741]

Hi There, Anyway this can run on a HyperV host running 2012 and not 2012 R2?

[@AzureAcademy]

I believe the minimum requirement for Azure Migrate is 2012R2

[@cloudpachehra1113]

Plz make video on AZ AD authentication to windows VMs in Azure now in public review

[@AzureAcademy]

Working on it now...stay tuned!

[@cloudpachehra1113]

@@AzureAcademy thankyou 🤩🤩✌✌

[@AzureAcademy]

😁

[@jeremya7836]

Do you know if there is PS module for Azure Migrate ?

[@AzureAcademy]

Not at this point

[@alonsofallas6914]

how can I assess an on premise server?

[@AzureAcademy]

Azure Migrate supports Physical server and other cloud migrations in Preview today. Go to server assessment tool and click Discover Change the dropdown at the top to NOT VIRTUALIZED download the .zip file Here is the link to the prerequisites docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-prepare-physical

[@sysjamal]

great tutorial but pleaaaaaaase make a white background, this terrible black BG

[@AzureAcademy]

Thank you for your feedback THEITMAN I understand almost everyone has an opinion, on both sides that the screen should be white or black. I use the black for a few reasons...first it is easier on my eyes and I am in front of my screen over 12 hours a day. second believe it or not the majority of Azure Academy viewers prefer the darker themes. If you watch the newer videos you will find that I use zoom a lot to make all the text readable and make all the code I write available on my GitHub so you can download it and follow along. Thanks again for your feedback, and helping me to improve.