You can use Azure Migrate to migrate your on-premises environment to Azure. It offers a centralized hub in the Azure portal, which can be used to track the discovery, assessment, and migration of your on-premises infrastructure, applications, and data. It offers the following features:
- Unified Migration platform: The migration journey can be started, executed, and tracked directly from the Azure portal.
- Range of tools: Assessments and migrations are offered from the hub in the Azure portal. This is integrated with other Azure services (such as Azure Site Recovery), other tools, and independent software vendor (ISV) offerings.
- Different workloads: Azure Migrate provides assessments and migration for the following:
- Servers: You can use the Azure Migrate Assessment tool, Azure Migrate Server Migration tool, and more, for assessing and migrating your servers to Azure VMs.
- Databases: You can use Database Migration Assistant (DMA) to assess databases and the Database Migration Service (DMS) for migrating on-premises databases to Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instances.
- Web applications: You can use the Azure App Service Assistant to assess and migrate on-premises web applications to Azure App Service.
- Virtual desktops: You can use different ISV tools to assess and migrate on-premises virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) to Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure.
- Data: Azure Data Box products can be used to quickly and cost-effectively migrate large amounts of data to Azure.
Currently, Azure offers two different versions of the migrate service. First, there's the current version, which is described in this chapter and can be used to create Azure Migrate projects, discover on-premises machines, and orchestrate assessments and migrations. The previous version can no longer be used to create Azure Migrate projects. It can be used to perform new discoveries, but this is not recommended. However, you can still access existing projects in the Azure portal.
In the next section, we are going to look at the different tools that Azure Migrate has to offer.