Microsoft Azure
Server migration to Azure
First we check what can move as it is and what needs changes. Then we move it and stay with that environment.
- We administer Azure environments every day
- Microsoft tooling: Azure Migrate, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor
- We run Azure server migrations from the first review through to day-to-day operations
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Not every server is fit to move as it stands
A migration starts with a review of what sits in the server room. You need to know which machines and applications are ready to move straight away, which need changes and which are better left where they are. Azure Migrate does this assessment: it collects data on the machines, on the dependencies between them and on how much they actually consume.
This stage decides everything that follows. Without it a migration turns into moving whatever can be moved, and ends with a bill for compute nobody uses.
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Three routes into Azure, each with a different cost
There are three approaches. Virtual machine migration moves whole servers with no changes to the applications. It is the simplest and fastest, but it carries the flaws of the old environment across with the servers, including capacity bought as a reserve.
Application migration means moving the applications themselves onto Azure services. It takes more work, but it brings the cost down and removes the operating system from your responsibilities. Data migration leaves the servers where they stand and moves only the data, for example with Azure Data Factory. The choice does not have to be the same across the company, because different systems can take different routes.
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The target environment and access to it
Before anything moves, the target environment is built in Azure: virtual networks, subnets, storage and traffic rules in security groups. It is the same network design as in the server room, written as configuration instead of cabling.
Then comes access control and encryption. We agree who can connect and from where, and we encrypt data both on disk and while it travels. The cloud does not take that duty off the company, it moves it somewhere else.
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You are not left alone after cutover
After the migration the environment has to be tested before the old servers are switched off. We check that the applications run, that performance holds and that nothing was left behind on the other side.
What remains is the backup, redundancy for a failure and monitoring that shows the state of the environment and its resource use. We run Azure day to day, so a migration does not end with handing over passwords.
Outcome
What you get
You know what moves
Before work starts, every machine and application has a clear decision.
The right migration path
You see the migration option for each server and how it affects cost.
Access and control
After cutover, you can securely use your resources and track their status.
Our work
Migrations are our daily work
Full network and server infrastructure migration
A complete move of a company's infrastructure: 38 network and server devices across 4 stages, with zero unplanned interruptions to critical services.
See the projectServer room to cloud
On-premise machines to Azure with a restore test and a rollback window.
See the projectHow we work
How we start
The first step is a talk and a look at what you already have.
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Need
We listen to what is not working and what needs to change.
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Analysis
We inventory the infrastructure, the risks and the dependencies.
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Plan
We agree the scope, the order of work and the way back.
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Delivery
We make changes in maintenance windows, without interrupting your work.
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Operations
We monitor, we respond and we plan what comes next.
Quick enquiry
Three clicks and we come back with specifics
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FAQ
Before you ask
Will the company stop working during the migration?
It does not have to. Machines replicate into Azure in the background while the old servers keep running, and we schedule the cutover itself for the time that gets in the way least. The break covers the cutover, not the whole migration.
How long does a migration take?
It depends on the number of servers and on how many applications need changes. We give a date after the review of the environment, because anything earlier would be guesswork.
Do we still need an administrator after the migration?
Someone has to watch the backups, the updates, the access rights and the cost. You can do it yourselves or leave it to us, but moving to Azure does not remove that work.
Let us start with a conversation
Describe the problem. We set the scope, the order of work and the timeline together.