Understanding migration options
The next phase of the migration planning is to determine how your migrated services will be built. This may be a simple lift-and-shift of one VM to a new VM in Azure, or you may take the opportunity to modify the technologies you use.
This part of the process is more than just technical decisions – you need to understand the reasons for moving to Azure; therefore, you must involve the senior decision-makers to help define the scope.
Depending on the motivation for the move, you may want to move some or all of your infrastructure. This also plays a vital role in determining how your systems migrate – not from the physical move's point of view, but the actual process you choose.
The options available when choosing your end-state architecture can be grouped as follows: