Introduction
You can migrate a workload running in Windows Server to an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machine (VM) and to Windows Server 2022 by using Windows Server migration tools or the Storage Migration Service.
Scenario
Contoso is a medium-size financial services company in London with a branch office in New York. Most of its compute environment runs on-premises on Windows Server. This includes virtualized workloads on Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts. Contoso IT staff are in the process of migrating Contoso servers to Windows Server 2022.
Contoso’s IT director realizes that Contoso has an outdated operational model with limited automation and reliance on dated technology. The Contoso IT Engineering team has started exploring Azure capabilities. They want to determine whether Azure services might assist with modernizing the current operational model through automation and virtualization.
As part of the initial design, the Contoso IT team asked you, their lead system engineer and server administrator, to set up a proof of concept environment. This environment must verify whether Azure services can help to modernize the IT infrastructure and meet business goals.
One of the first tasks you must do is to plan the process of migrating on-premises resources such as file servers, to Azure IaaS VMs. In this module, you'll learn about performing a Windows Server IaaS migration. You'll learn to migrate workloads using the appropriate Windows Server migration tools. Finally, you'll learn to migrate file servers using the Storage Migration Service, and to migrate on-premises resources to Azure.
By the end of the module, you will be able to lead Contoso's IT team in migrating their on-premises resources.
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Describe Windows Server IaaS migration.
- Explain how to migrate workloads using Windows Server Migration tools.
- Describe storage migration.
- Migrate file servers by using the Storage Migration Service.
Prerequisites
In order to get the best learning experience from this module, it's important that you have knowledge and experience of:
- Windows Server workloads.
- Common Windows Server management tools.
- Core Microsoft compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies.
- On-premises resiliency Windows Server-based compute and storage technologies.
- Implementing and managing IaaS services in Azure.
- Microsoft Entra ID.
- Security-related technologies such as firewalls, encryption, and multi-factor authentication.
- Windows PowerShell scripting.
- Automation and monitoring.