Azure Migration PoC - Stretch AAG Cluster

DSP will work with you to understand your current reporting requirements, including identifying the load currently being placed on your existing on-premise SQL Server production environments.

We will then utilise Microsoft tools to help define the size and shape of the Azure instance. We will ensure that only the most necessary resources are consumed within the cloud environment.

Comprehensively planning for your migration will include designing its architecture and accommodating for all the relevant building blocks and service segmentation. 

This stage also incorporates tasks such as:

• Building a migration team
• Identifying the resources required for a successful migration
• Selecting the right tools for a best-practice solution.
  
  The plan we produce will highlight the tools used by our experts to automate the move and transparently explain the initiated cloud inventory, including management aspects. You can be sure that your performance, security, resource usage, and costs are in safe hands with a plan that presents transparency every step of the way.

Testing a workload through a Proof of Concept will enable you to determine the capacity required for a major resource allocation to cloud. You will then be able to compare how an application performs running in Azure versus on-premises. Network performance and latency should also be carefully considered here.

Our Azure offering includes:

1. Azure tenancy setup

2. Agreed migration of initial workloads

3. The building of any core IT infrastructure services required to support your workloads. Ask one of our expert team for more details of what this element can contain.

The final part of this stage should be a documented plan that includes technical details such as the compute capacity and storage; the required virtual network policies; a considered evaluation of the current demand of your on-premises services, accounting for potential growth; and an initial cost evaluation.

Once the Proof of Concept has been amended to fully meet your requirements, and you are confident that Azure is the right fit for your business, DSP will move forward to the migration process. We will:

1. Plan your deployment & draw up a Statement of Work (SoW)

2. Initiate your deployment into Azure

3. Conclude the deployment of your workloads into cloud

Once steps 1 and 2 have been completed, the initiation of the Azure Development stage becomes substantially easier. So when you're ready to step into your migration, so are we!