Azure Migrate: Discovery and Assessment
Deploy the Azure Migrate appliance in an on-premises environment, discover servers and dependencies, and generate an Azure readiness report with cost estimates.
What Is Azure Migrate?
Azure Migrate is a centralised hub in the Azure portal that provides tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises servers, databases, web apps, and virtual desktops to Azure. It integrates with both Microsoft-built tools and a growing ecosystem of independent software vendor (ISV) tools such as Cloudamize and Movere. Azure Migrate stores all discovery and assessment data in a dedicated project resource within a resource group.
# Create an Azure Migrate project
az migrate project create \
--resource-group myRG \
--name myMigrateProject \
--location eastusThe Azure Migrate Appliance
Discovery begins by deploying the Azure Migrate appliance — a lightweight VM that you run in your on-premises environment. The appliance continuously collects metadata, performance counters, and dependency data from VMware vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, or physical servers and streams them securely to the Azure Migrate service over HTTPS. A single appliance can discover up to 10,000 VMware VMs or 5,000 Hyper-V VMs.
# Download the appliance OVA for VMware discovery
# In the Azure portal: Azure Migrate > Servers > Discover > Virtualization: VMware
# Download URL is provided per project
# After deployment, configure the appliance at:
# https://<appliance-ip>:44368All lessons in this course
- The 6-Rs Migration Framework
- Azure Migrate: Discovery and Assessment
- Rehost with Azure Migrate (Lift and Shift)
- Database Migration Best Practices