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Migration
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Assessment
An assessment is the structured review that estimates whether a workload is ready to move to Azure, what it might cost, and what target configuration makes sense. In Azure Migrate, assessments help teams compare current servers, databases, applications, and dependencies against Azure options before migration begins. It is not a final migration plan by.
Migration planning
fundamentals
2 commands
Aliases: Azure Migrate assessment, Migration assessment, Server assessment, Application assessment
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Migration
premium
Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate helps organizations discover, assess, plan, and migrate servers, databases, web apps, virtual desktops, and other workloads to Azure with reduced risk.
Migration planning
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Migrate, Azure Migrate hub, migration assessment
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Migration
premium
Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery helps provide disaster recovery by managing replication, failover, and failback for supported workloads.
Disaster recovery
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ASR, Azure Site Recovery, Azure disaster recovery, Site Recovery
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Migration
premium
Backup vault
A Backup vault is an Azure Backup storage and management entity that stores backups, recovery points, and backup policies for supported newer workloads.
Backup and recovery
fundamentals
5 commands
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Migration
premium
Discovery appliance
A discovery appliance is the Azure Migrate appliance that discovers source servers and sends configuration, dependency, and performance metadata to Azure for migration assessment.
Discovery and assessment
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Migrate appliance, migration discovery appliance, assessment appliance, server discovery appliance
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Migration
premium
Migration project
Migration project is a project container that organizes Azure Migrate discovery, assessment, dependency analysis, and migration tracking for a group of workloads. Teams should manage it with clear ownership, monitoring, rollback evidence, and production change discipline.
Azure Migrate
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Migrate project, migration workspace, Migrate project
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Migration
verified
Recovery Services vault
A Recovery Services vault stores backup and site recovery data and configuration.
Backup and recovery
fundamentals
8 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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