A successful migration journey requires proper alignment of business and IT stakeholders. Strategic migration readiness in addition of a multidisciplinary team of technical resources has an even great impact on the timelines and successful completion of cloud migration. However few corporations have the diversity of skills required to support strategy, planning, readiness, adoption, governance, and management. Partners and other support models are often required to fill in the gaps in the team's skills and responsibilities.
The Azure journey enablement program is split in 6 modules that will up-skill your team in migrating a customer's on-Premises infrastructure to Azure following the methodology of Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
Module 0: Beginning our Journey (Sales/Pre-sales/Tech)
- Expectations for participants
- Introduction to Azure Migration through Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
- Azure skilling
Module 1: Landing the Deal (Sales / Pre-sales / Tech)
- Azure Value Proposition
- CAF: Strategy
- Migration triggers
- Having the customer conversation
- Recap Microsoft's Partner program for FY21
Module 2: Discover, Assess, Plan
- CAF Plan, Govern
- Discovering the estate
- Planning migration waves
- Dependency mapping
- Running Assessments
- Tooling - Movere, MAPT, Cloud Recon, etc
- Azure Migrate Assessment
- Total Cost Optimization (TCO) Reports
- Tracking the migration (DevOps Boards, etc)
Module 3: Getting Ready to Migrate
- CAF: Govern, Ready,
- Azure Readiness Guide (including Pattern for hybrid environments - DNS resolution, routing, High availability, etc)
- Landing Zones (Architecture decisions – hub and spoke, VWAN, virtual appliances and security)
- Blueprints, Policy
Module 4: The Main Event
- CAF: Adopt, Migrate, Manage
- VM Migration + Cutover
- Database Migration + Cutover
- Azure Migrate: Server Migration
Module 5: Continuing the Journey
- CAF: Manage
- Coverage of Azure management & operations
- Business continuity and Disaster Recovery
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Azure Cloud Adoption Framework | |
| Recommended certifications | |
| Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Learn |
| Azure Fundamentals | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/azure-fundamentals |
| Get acquainted with the Azure Migration Center | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/migration/ |
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Slide deck | https://aka.ms/JourneyContent1 |
| Azure Cloud Adoption Framework | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/microsoft-cloud-adoption-framework-for-azure/3-define-strategy |
| Sales programs and Azure Value proposition | |
| RFI / RFP | https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles/azure-standard-response-to-rfi-on-security-privacy-and-compliance/Azure%20-%20Standard%20Response%20for%20Request%20for%20Information%20-%20Compliance%20Privacy%20and%20Security.pdf |
| Cloud Journey Tracker | https://aka.ms/adopt/tools |
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Slide Deck | |
| Cloud Adoption Framework: PLAN | |
| Cloud Adoption Framework: GOVERN | |
| Azure Devops / Boards | |
| Running Assessments | |
| CAF Tools & Templates | |
| Session recording | TDB |
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Slide Deck | |
| Cloud Adoption Framework: Ready | |
| Create an enterprise scale architecture | |
| Terraform landing zone | |
| Azure Design and architecture best practices | |
| Azure Security Best practices |
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Slide Deck | |
| Cloud Adoption Framework: Migrate | |
| Azure migrate for server | |
| Hands on Lab | |
| Migrate your relational data stored in SQL server | |
| Design a holistic monitoring strategy on Azure |
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Slide Deck | |
| Cloud Adoption Framework: Govern | |
| Governance | |
| Cost Management | |
| Policies | |
| HandsOn lab |