Migration on-premise ERP(Legacy) to Azure Part1: Lift and Ship Hyper-V

  





In this scenario, the customer has a Microsoft ERP (Legacy) running On-permiss under Hyper-V Technology




The company want to move the ERP to the Azure Could environment without modification
because they will have a lot of customization and dependency inside the ERP system.


There is 4 VMs workload for application Group

1 VM running Active Directory Domain Service
2 VM running Application Server 
1 VM running SQL Server 2017






The best tools for this requirement in Azure can be using Azure Migrate




Under Server, Database and web app

    There is two-step 




    1. Assessment Tools
"To discover your on-premises environment, you will need to deploy the Azure Migrate appliance. The following steps will help you set up and configure the appliance."

I download appliance VHD files and deploy to the Hyper-hosting  server follow Discover Step




 after connect to the appliance VM, the Appliance configuration manager will be running you have to input parameters required  your Hyper-V hostname, administrator user name & Password



 Once your complete the appliance step. This app will send back discovered your VM to azure for assessment.



this assessment section will help you estimate the cost and plan to host the VMs.

 


2. Migration Tools

you already discover your on-premise environment and complete the assessment. Now it's time to migrate 





- Discover server

Discover server for migration will be different from Discover for assessment .you may need to install 
Azure Site Recovery Provider on your Hyper-V hosting server


Next step is replicating data from VMs



Once the replication server is complete you can go next for you can test migration or skip to migrate.



This step System will generate VM by replication data from Hyper-V





Resource visualizer from 4 VMs


Next Topic . We will improve SQL Server by converting to Azure SQL