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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Windows Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Tool

 

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Does your infrastructure ready migrate to Windows Azure?

Well, if you’re not sure about pre-requisite and doubt then you should try this Windows Azure Virtual Machine Readiness Tool. Once installed on your machine, you can assess three types of workload:- Active Directory, Sharepoint and SQL Server.

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In order to run this assessment, make sure you fulfill below requirement before proceed further

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Answer up to 13 question about the environment that you would like to achieve by using Windows Azure.

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Once complete answering 13 question, the system will start to scan your environment and detect your servers based on workload that you would like to assess.

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At the end, you will get a report around 46 pages. Here is a sample of assessment which I have ran:

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Based on  the summary page, I need to need to consider certain planning or configuration before move to Windows Azure.

hmmm…Look like I need to read the entire 46 pages. The report included with recommendation and explanation on how to move to your workload to Windows Azure.

Do check out this tool and run on your environment

To download – Click here.

p/s:- Thanks to Susantha Silva (MVP Hyper-V) which introduce this tool so I can share with everyone. Enjoy.