Project 1: Develop Cloud Migration Plan
Step 1: Research Cloud Premigration Considerations
In this step, you will research premigration considerations, such as the analysis of the current workloads that are being served out of BallotOnline’s existing IT infrastructure, and how the
cloud migration plan will align with business objectives and BallotOnline’s updated IT policies, which includes the cloud addendum you recently wrote.
Take Note
Your supervisor, Sophia, has recommended that you use your Cloud Adoption Policy Addendum from CCS 630:
Cloud Infrastructure Planning,
Design,
and Configurations, as you are looking at migration considerations.
There are some factors to consider in understanding the technical and business impacts of any proposed workload migration plan. These include
premigration assessment,
data migration,
application migration,
API integration or automation, and user migrations.
You should engage in an online conversation with your colleagues to discuss premigration considerations in the Discussion: Data Migration vs. Application Migration Strategies.
After discussing potential data migration vs. application migration strategies in the discussion, you can move to the next step, where you will take a close look at potential tools to evaluate migrating workloads to the cloud.
Project 1: Develop Cloud Migration Plan
Step 2: Review and Compare Cloud Premigration Assessment Tools
In this step, you will learn about some of the leading tools available that can aid in the cloud
premigration assessment and help you identify the technical requirements for each workload to be migrated to the cloud.
Take Note
Your supervisor, Sophia, has asked you to review the following cloud premigration planning and assessment tools, and create a table that will compare each tool and highlight their capabilities:
·
AWS Application Discovery Service
After reviewing and creating the feature comparison table for the above-listed tools, submit your comparison using the
Premigration Assessment Tool Comparison Template.
Project 1: Develop Cloud Migration Plan
Step 3: Explore AWS Application Discovery Service
Premigration Terminology
Application inventory: List of all the applications.
Application dependencies and baseline system mapping: All the components that an application relies on for its optimal operations are referred to as its dependencies. Initial alignment of IT resources with the applications is referred to as baseline system mapping.
Process performance: Process performance is the performance of each process that an application uses for its optimal operations.
Sophia has asked to learn more about the details with
AWS Application Discovery Service
before you deploy it to analyze BallotOnline’s workloads later in the migration planning process.
AWS Application Discovery Service uses either agents or collectors to discover the performance, capacity, and applications running on an individual as well as multiple systems/servers.
The service collects and presents configuration, usage, and behavior data from your servers to help plan migration projects, allowing you to identify application inventory and application dependencies, establish and map a baseline for your system, and determine process performance.
After reviewing the AWS Application Discovery Services website, engage in an online conversation with your colleagues at BallotOnline in the Discussion: Evaluation of AWS Application Discovery Service and then continue to the next step to install a discovery agent.
