Plan migrations faster with Azure Migrate
Move from manual assessments to migration-ready recommendations faster with Azure Migrate, the repeatable workshop-to-deck motion.
- Impacted audience
- Global systems integrators, systems integrators, and enterprise software development companies.
Migration planning typically takes weeks of manual research and strategy. From exporting spreadsheets and manually classifying workloads to running assessments, cost analyses, and stitching everything into a deck that feels outdated by the time it’s presented, the process slows teams down and can even limit pipeline.
Azure Migrate collapses that entire process into a single workflow—reducing migration planning from weeks to hours. From discovery through execution, this repeatable workshop-to-deck motion is built to streamline partners’ migration and modernization planning. Explore how Azure Migrate can turn weeks of manual research and planning into more time for customer outreach and higher-value migration planning.
How to get started with Azure Migrate
Start with Azure Migrate Collector to scan a customers’ entire IT estate offline, enrich the inventory with tags and application groupings, and generate a stakeholder-ready Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with migration and modernization recommendations. The output includes lift-and-shift options, security posture guidance, and cost insights, so that you can move from assessment to customer conversation faster.
Follow these steps for a speedy migration planning process:
- Set up Collector: Download and configure the Azure Migrate Collector on a Windows Server in your datacenter.
- Choose your discovery method: Compare Collector, appliance, and import-based approaches for your scenario.
- Tag your workloads: Follow tagging best practices for accurate recommendations.
- Organize applications: Define and manage applications from your discovered inventory.
- Generate your report: Build an Azure Migrate report and export to PowerPoint.
- Dive deeper: View application assessments for application and workload-level migration plans.
Next steps
Learn more in the blog and get started with Azure Migrate today.