4. Performing migration to Azure

This chapter outlines how to execute a real migration project based on the workload assessment done in the previous chapter. We have created two hands-on labs to show you how real-life migrations can be implemented.

The first hands-on lab gives you practical examples of how to migrate Linux servers from a Hyper-V host to Azure using Azure Migrate. The second lab guides you through migrating a MySQL server to Azure using Azure Database Migration Service (DMS).

Executing migrations in real life is not always as easy as it sounds. Most problems we have seen are fortunately not actually technology-related, but more about planning and project management. If you apply the lessons of this book to your projects, you will be able to avoid the same pitfalls.

For example, one specific migration project we know of was originally planned to take a couple of months and it had about 500 virtual servers to migrate to Azure. The project turned out to...