Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Moving Virtual Machines to Azure - Recommendation

How to Move Virtual Machines to Azure: Minimizing Administrative Effort

Question

Your company has 300 virtual machines hosted in a VMware environment. The virtual machines vary in size and have various utilization levels.

You plan to move all the virtual machines to Azure.

You need to recommend how many and what size Azure virtual machines will be required to move the current workloads to Azure. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you use to make the recommendation?

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A. B. C. D.

C

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/migrate-appliance https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/design-your-migration-to-azure/2-plan-your-azure-migration

The correct answer to this question is option C: Azure Migrate.

Azure Migrate is a Microsoft service that is designed to simplify the migration of on-premises servers, virtual machines, and applications to Azure. Azure Migrate can be used to assess the on-premises environment, discover virtual machines, and migrate them to Azure. It provides a centralized hub for all the migration activities.

In this scenario, the organization plans to move 300 virtual machines to Azure. The first step to migrating these virtual machines is to assess the current on-premises environment. Azure Migrate can be used to assess the virtual machines and provide sizing and cost estimates for the Azure infrastructure needed to support the workloads.

Azure Migrate uses a variety of tools and services to assess the on-premises environment, including:

  1. Discovery and assessment: Azure Migrate can discover virtual machines running on VMware and Hyper-V hosts, assess their compatibility with Azure, and provide recommendations for sizing and cost.

  2. Migration: Azure Migrate provides tools to migrate the virtual machines to Azure, including agent-based and agentless migration options.

  3. Cost estimation: Azure Migrate provides a cost estimation tool that can help estimate the cost of running virtual machines in Azure.

Using Azure Migrate, the organization can assess the virtual machines running in the VMware environment, and determine the number and size of Azure virtual machines required to support the workloads. This will minimize administrative effort as it provides a centralized hub for all the migration activities.

Azure Pricing calculator (Option A) can be used to estimate the cost of running virtual machines in Azure, but it does not provide the assessment and migration capabilities that Azure Migrate provides.

Azure Advisor (Option B) provides recommendations for optimizing Azure resources, but it does not provide the assessment and migration capabilities that Azure Migrate provides.

Azure Cost Management (Option D) is a tool for monitoring and optimizing Azure costs, but it does not provide the assessment and migration capabilities that Azure Migrate provides.