Cloud migration process


Running your applications in the public cloud has several cost and effort benefits. Many organizations are planning and preparing to move their applications to the cloud to reduce the capital expenses, and the support and administrative costs. Moving into cloud computing requires a lot of planning because you need to determine what it costs to run the same servers in the public cloud before you can finalize the move. Also, after the move, you need to continually focus on how to optimize your cloud-based application in order to increase cost savings.

TrueSight Cloud Cost Control enables you to simulate the migration of the servers in your current infrastructure to the public cloud and provides you with the migration cost estimates. You can use the cost estimates to make an informed decision about moving to the cloud. The simulation algorithm uses one of the most common cloud migration strategy, called Lift-and-Shift.

For more information, see the following sections:


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Key phases of the cloud migration process

The following image shows the five key phases of migrating your servers and applications to the public cloud. The table that follows provides a brief explanation of each phase and how TrueSight Cloud Cost Control supports it.

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Migration simulation strategy

TrueSight Cloud Cost Control uses the Rehosting or Lift-and-shift cloud migration strategy to simulate the migration of a set of servers to the public cloud. With this approach, servers are replicated or re-hosted on the target public cloud without any redesigning. This is one of the most commonly used cloud migration strategies. 

The migration simulation algorithm considers the hardware configuration of the servers to be migrated and proposes instance types with the same configuration on the public clouds. If two instance types with the same configuration are available, then the algorithm chooses the cheaper one. For more information, see Estimating-the-cost-of-migrating-servers-to-the-public-cloud. 

 

 

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