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Cloud Migration (Migrating physical infrastructure to the cloud)
Migrating physical infrastructure to the cloud using Azure involves various services. The ones I've considered for cloud migration include Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery, Azure VMware Solution, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Storage (Blob), Azure Database Migration Service, and Azure Data Box.
Is this selection of services correct for the cloud migration process? If so, are there any other services that could be used in place of the ones I've mentioned? If this is not the right approach, what other services should be considered for meeting this requirement?
Requirements:
Active Directory with about 30 users current physical infrastructure I would assume requires up to 24 - 32 Gb RAM and up to 1 -2 TB HDD space and the OS will be Server 2016.
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- So just a single server domain controller, is there file shares on it as well or is it just Active Directory? An approach you can connect your Azure virtual network to your onpremise network (I have a linked in post that provides info on that https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyjwallace_connect-your-network-to-azure-in-4-easy-steps-activity-7104894065686548480--snG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)
and then you can spin up an azure virtual machine and join it to your existing domain and promote it to a domain controller. Then all your users and computers and dns in active directory will be replicated to that new azure based domain controller. If you have an file shares on the server you can move those to azure file shares instead of having them on the domain controller. I have a video on how to use Azure File Sync to migrate file share files to Azure Files (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyjwallace_using-azure-file-sync-to-migrate-from-windows-activity-7128772467141054466-Ehax?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).
So that would be my initial recommended approach but if you have a lot of other stuff on there then yes I'd probably recommend using Azure Migrate first and foremost as that's going to give you a good analysis of your current setup and help you size your VM correctly in azure and handle the replication.
