In this series, we explored the many different tools, utilities, and options available to perform cloud assessments, planning, readiness checks, and migrations.
We covered the different phases that make up the migration journey, namely: Discover, Assess, Migrate, Manage, and Optimize.
Many of these tools performed multiple functions across more than one phase of the migration journey.
As a quick-link reference, here is the list of tools this series covered:
- Part 1: Introduction
- Discover
- Part 2: Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit
- Part 3: Service Map
- Part 4: OVF/OVA
- Part 5: Custom Scripts
- Assess
- Migrate
- Part 10: Azure Websites Migration Assistant
- Part 11: Azure Database Migration Planner
- Part 12: Azure Migrate
- Part 13: Azure Migration Center
- Part 14: Manage and Optimize
- Part 15: Third-Party Tools
- Part 16: Summary
Throughout this series, we strived to explore each of the currently available tools, and provide information about what they are, what you use them for, along with some pro’s and con’s, and other thoughts based on our experience with them.
To help summarize, we have created a simple flowchart to show all the tools we’ve considered, what categories (as a tool can cross multiple categories) they fall into, and how they relate to each other.
And that’s the end of our series. We hope you found it useful/helpful in putting together the various pieces of Azure migration toolsets.