Hands-on migration lab

In the Hands-on assess lab section of Chapter 3, Assessment and migration planning, we saw how the assessment of workloads and dependency analysis are done. These are vital steps in the migration framework and we're currently in the Migrate phase. We have two sections in this lab. The first part deals with the migration of servers, where we're going to migrate one of our LAMP servers to the cloud and verify that the site is working as expected. In the second scenario, we are migrating a MySQL database on Linux to an Azure MySQL managed database. In the first, we are migrating from IaaS to IaaS, whereas in the second, we're migrating from IaaS to a PaaS solution. Let's get started with the migration of the servers.

Migrating servers to Azure

As explained earlier, the Azure Migrate service is tooling for both the Assess phase and the Migrate phase. In the Assess phase, we rely on the Server Assessment tools, and in the Migrate phase, we...