Azure Migrate documentation

Find articles to help you discover, assess, and migrate your on-premises environment using tools in the Azure Migrate hub.

• Azure Migrate Documentation
• Overview
  • What is Azure Migrate?
  • What's new
• Quickstarts
  • Prepare Azure accounts using built-in roles
  • Create a project
  • Create a project - ARM template
  • Create a project - Portal
  • Evaluate migration readiness and savings for Arc resources
  • Create a business case using imported inventory
• Key Concepts
  • Supported Geographies
  • Security baseline
  • Appliance:Security best practices
  • Credentials:Security best practices
  • Requirements for Private endpoints
  • Support Matrix
  • Assessment rules for PostgreSQL
  • Agentless migration architecture
  • Hyper-V migration architecture
• Discover inventory
  • Discovery methods
  • Discovery using appliance
    • Appliance requirements
    • Register appliance using pre-configured Entra app
    • Appliance configuration
      • Provide server credentials
      • Appliance diagnostics
    • Discover VMware estate
      • Discover Virtual Machines
      • Scoped discovery of VMware hosted VMs
      • Support matrix for VMware discovery
    • Discover Hyper-V estate
      • Discover Virtual Machines
      • Support matrix for Hyper-V discovery
    • Discover Physical or Public-cloud estate
      • Discover physical servers and servers running in AWS and GCP
      • Support matrix for Physical server discovery
    • Discover software and workloads
    • Deep discover database workloads
      • SQL instances
        • Discover SQL servers
        • Create least privileged credentials for SQL discovery
      • PgSQL instances
        • Create least privileged credentials for PostgreSQL discovery
      • MySQL instances
        • Discover MySQL database instances
  • Discovery using Azure Arc
    • Overview
    • Manage Arc resource sync
    • Collect additional data about Arc enabled servers
    • Azure Migrate VM Extension for Arc-enabled servers
  • Discover using inventory import
    • CSV import
    • RVTools import
• Explore inventory
  • Discovered metadata
  • Review discovered inventory
  • Tags
  • Insights
  • Define and manage applications
• Create Business case
  • Business case overview
  • Build a business case
  • Review business case
• Plan migrations
  • Assessments
    • Overview
    • Prerequisites
    • Review assessment report
    • Cost and savings calculations
    • Target right-sizing
    • Performance coverage
    • Application assessment
      • Create assessment
      • Customize assessment settings
      • Review assessment report
      • Code level insights
        • Integrate with CAST highlights
    • Workload specific assessments
      • Azure VM assessment
        • Create an Azure VM assessment
        • Customize assessment settings
        • Target right-sizing
        • Review assessment report
      • Azure VMware Solution AVS assessment
        • Create an Azure VMware Solution AVS assessment
        • Review assessment report
      • Azure SQL assessment
        • Create an Azure SQL assessment
        • Customize assessment settings
        • Review assessment report
      • Azure Database for PostgreSQL assessment
        • Create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL assessment
        • Review assessment PostgreSQL report
        • PostgreSQL customize assessment settings
      • MySQL assessment
        • Assessment overview
        • Create MySQL assessment
      • Webapp assessment
        • Create a Webapp assessment
        • Review assessment report
        • Enhance web app assessment by adding code scan report
  • Wave planning
    • Overview
    • Plan and create waves
    • Complete a wave plan
    • Execute and track waves
    • Wave planning
• Execute migrations
  • Overview of migration method
  • Agentless migrations using portal
  • Agent-based migration using portal
  • Redeploy servers using IaC
  • Support Matrix
    • VMware vSphere migration requirements
    • Physical Agent-based migration requirements
    • Hyper-V migration requirements
• Modernize applications
  • Overview of Web App Migration and Modernization
  • Containerize ASP.NET apps and migrate to AKS
  • Containerize Java web apps and migrate to AKS
  • Containerize Java web apps and migrate to App Service containers
  • Modernize ASP.NET web apps to App Service code
  • CI/CD for Day 2 operations
  • Modernization to App service code
• Tutorials
  • Migration scenarios
    • Migrate VMware servers
      • Assess VMware servers
      • Migrate to Azure Cloud
      • Migrate to Azure Local
    • Migrate Hyper-V servers
      • Assess large number of servers in Hyper-V environment
      • Migrate to Azure Cloud
      • Migrate to Azure Local
    • Migrate physical servers
      • Assess Physical servers
      • Migrate Physical servers to Azure
    • Migrate servers hosted on public cloud
      • Discover AWS inventory
      • Discover GCP inventory
      • Migrate AWS EC2 to Azure
    • Modernize applications
      • Containerize ASP.NET apps and migrate to AKS
      • Containerize Java web apps and migrate to AKS
      • Containerize ASP.NET apps and migrate to App Service containers
      • Containerize Java web apps and migrate to App Service containers
      • Modernize ASP.NET web apps to App Service code
      • CI/CD for Day 2 operations
• How-to
  • Create project with private endpoint
  • Discover and assess using Azure Private Link
  • Migrate servers to Azure using Private Link
  • Troubleshoot network connectivity for private endpoint
  • Simplified experience for Azure migrate
  • Discovery
    • Deploy appliance
      • Deploy appliance using script
      • Deploy appliance with template
    • Deploy appliance in Azure Government
    • Create least privilege credentials for SQL Server discovery
    • Enable Arc on discovered items
    • How to add server credentials
    • Migrate to Azure Monitor agent
    • Analyze machine dependencies agent-based
    • Analyze machine dependencies agentless
  • Assessment
    • Enable application and code assessment
      • Assess large number of servers in VMware environment
      • Assess large numbers of physical servers
  • Migrate
    • Replicate using ExpressRoute
    • Prepare machines for migration
    • Prepare Windows 2003 servers for migration
    • Migrate VMware VMs to encrypted Azure VMs
    • Test migration
    • Upgrade Windows OS
    • Scale migration
      • How to migrate VMware VMs at scale using the agentless replication method
      • Automate migration of large number of VMs
      • How to automate VMware migration
  • Manage
    • Manage projects
    • Work with previous version of Azure Migrate
    • Onboard on-premises servers in VMware virtual environment to Azure Arc
    • Manage migration projects with Azure Lighthouse
• Troubleshoot
  • Azure Migrate Project
    • Troubleshoot Azure Migrate projects
    • Azure Migrate in unsupported regions
  • Appliance configuration
    • Troubleshoot Azure Migrate appliance
    • Troubleshoot with appliance diagnostics
    • Troubleshoot network connectivity for private endpoint
  • Workload discovery
  • Action Center
  • Server discovery
  • Dependency analysis
    • Troubleshoot dependency visualization
  • Assessments
    • Common Issues
    • Supported Scenarios
  • Migrate
    • Replication in agentless VMware migration
    • Stuck replication and slow migration in agentless VMware
    • Web app migration issues
    • Windows OS upgrade issues
• FAQs
  • General
  • RVTools XLSX import
  • Azure Migrate appliance
  • Discovery and dependency analysis
  • Software and Insights
  • Assessment
  • Business case
  • Migration and modernization tool
• Reference
  • Azure CLI
  • Azure PowerShell
  • Azure Policy built-ins
• Resources
  • Migration in the Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Contoso migration examples
  • REST API
  • Resource Manager template
  • Pricing
  • UserVoice
  • Microsoft Q&A question page
  • Blog
  • Azure Migrate
  • Azure Roadmap