What Is the Best Way to Handle the Unknowns During Cloud Migration?
IMAGINE THIS . . . You had engaging conversations with leadership to better understand the specific goals this Azure Cloud migration is slated to provide. Furthermore, you have hired a team to handle each piece of the migration. Each person hired has done migrations to Microsoft Azure Cloud in the past in their hired silo…
How to Think With the End in Mind for Cloud Migration
I remember reading the book, “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. One “law” that always stuck in my head was related to goal setting: “Think with the end in mind.” In short, this law stipulates that the focus of any successful task is the condition at its ending. It ensures that the correct actions…
What Is Meant by “Cloud Migration Triggers”?
In a previous post, you learned that the two main reasons a cloud migration is initiated are to improve performance and/or to reduce costs. While this is true, cloud migration is not a regular discussion for the bulk of Information Technology departments within enterprises worldwide. While this topic is discussed more often than five years…
What Is Meant By “Guest Machine” and “Host Machine”?
Imagine that you are hired to help migrate 20 servers to a Microsoft Azure cloud tenet. The servers are all VMware virtual machines running on two separate 4-host clusters and are accessible via the local vSphere 6.7 install. At the initial team meeting, everyone introduces themselves to the group. Primary assignments are distributed afterward. Your…
What Does the Phrase “Migrations Are Not in a Silo” Mean?
Imagine this… You have joined a team that will migrate an entire (one) VMware vSphere instance to Azure with the Azure VMware Solution. It has been six months, but a lot of progress has been made with the team (including you, of course). You have: Created a scope of all servers included and cross-referenced those…
What Is Meant by “Tenet Admin”?
Let’s assume you are working on a new project with a team of 10 Information Technology professionals. A company (let’s call it Nickison II, LLC) is buying part of another company (we’ll call this company Marty’s). The deal includes a total transfer of ownership for six applications. Let’s call these applications Quickbooks Desktop, WordPress (local…
What Is Meant by “The Migration Is Not Done Once All the Servers Are Migrated”?
Congratulations! You have migrated the last of the servers from the datacenter into Azure VMware Solution’s Azure Private Cloud. You can see all of the migrated VMware guests listed on the new vSphere instance with three ‘virtual’ hosts load-balancing the full load of all servers that have been migrated (for now, let’s say you migrated…
What Is Meant by “Patch Management” When Discussing Migrations?
Congratulations! You have successfully migrated (in this instance) 10 Windows 2016 DataCenter servers. Each runs part of the Supply Chain ecosystem. They are all VMWare Virtual Servers, each with 8 GB of vRam, 2 vCPUs, and a 200 GB Hard Disk. You migrated the systems to a private cloud instance in the Microsoft Azure subscription…
What Is Meant By “On-Prem Application”?
In my last piece, I talked about cloud-based applications. We discussed that when an infrastructure is being migrated, it’s essential to understand the soon-to-be-migrated environment’s architecture. As you recall, you need to know about the following:serversnetworksbackup schemasdatabasesapplicationclient-access routines…for all involved devices.You can plan more effectively for a successful migration when you have a good understanding…
What Is Meant By “Cloud-Based Application”?
When an infrastructure is being migrated, one of the main goals is to clearly understand the architecture of the environment that will be migrated. Specifically, you want to know about the servers, networks, backup schemas, databases, applications, and client-access routines for all devices involved. When you have a good understanding of the general scope of…
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