Organizing for discovery and evaluation success
Discovery and assessment are important processes in many fields. In cloud migration, the process of discovery and assessment is a crucial factor that determines the success or failure of the migration. It involves a complete, thorough analysis of the existing IT landscape to gain a full understanding of what is being worked with and how it all ties together. This allows for smart choices to be made about what to migrate, how to migrate it, and where to migrate it to.
The systems that will be moving to the cloud must be thoroughly understood in order to make the transfer successfully. To assess how well your apps and infrastructure map to the cloud and what sorts of cloud resources they’ll need, it is essential to have a thorough grasp of both.
The analysis and planning provided by the Discovery and Assessment Service lay the groundwork for the adoption or growth of the enterprise cloud. Customers who intend to incorporate public or hybrid cloud solutions into their computer infrastructure must first use this service.
The what, where, when, and how of a cloud migration must be decided upon in order to reduce risk and maximize cost. By combining quantitative and qualitative analysis with actionable results, the discovery and evaluation service provides answers to these issues.
The breadth of services includes anything from simple cloud readiness assessments of the current computer inventory to roadmap generation, application mapping, vendor analysis, cloud-architecture, and migration planning. The assessment establishes the framework for assisting clients in maximizing the effectiveness of their existing infrastructure, planning for private, public, or hybrid cloud, developing a business case, obtaining true-cost pricing, and lowering migration risk.
It can take a while to conduct discovery, and it might not be able to gather all the necessary facts. Depending on the context and requirements of the customer, you can occasionally need more discovery data. So, use your best judgment to decide when you have enough data to continue on to the cloud project’s subsequent phases.
| ASSESSMENT DELIVERABLES | DESCRIPTION |
| Infrastructure and Application Discovery | To gain a thorough picture of your infrastructure, use inventory profiles for Windows and Linux to find the workloads in your environment. |
| Inventory Analysis | Performance of the hardware and applications, network dependence, and a cloud-fit inventory profiling. |
| Performance and Metrics | Data is gathered on average daily memory and CPU consumption, highest recorded IOPS, and storage utilization. |
| Application Inventory | Applications already present in the environment will be inventoried, and they may be rated for PaaS and SaaS potential. |
| Network Dependencies | IP addresses and network adapters connected to the examined machines. |
| Cloud Readiness | Determine which assets are more or less appropriate for cloud transfer. |
| Delivery Modelling (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS) | Identify an asset’s level of readiness and its suitability for the public cloud. |
| Remediation Scoring (IaaS) | Choose the workloads that can be quickly transferred to the cloud. Prior to any migrations, identify the workloads that probably require some form of remediation. |
| Software Reports | All installed software will be reported on, helping to determine the environment’s cloud readiness and PaaS score. |
| Financial Analysis | Comparisons between cloud TCO and private infrastructure as well as cloud compute prices and benchmark data center costs. |
Choose Us to Plan and Perform your Migration
The first stage in your cloud migration process is the Discovery and Assessment Service. It aids in addressing the issues of “what to move, where to move it, and why move it at all.” Planning for migration might start with an emphasis on “what to do first and how to make it happen” once these insights have been obtained. You can get the answers you need and carry out your migration plans with the aid of our planning and migration services.
Our cloud management services may assist you with cost control, policy setting, governance, and cloud environment optimization using best practices that will increase ROI and reduce risk once your workloads are in the cloud.
We work with you to determine which approach works best for your organization – public, private or hybrid. As a part of our cloud migration consulting services, we take a customer-centric approach, pre-set templates and data analytics applications to ensure migrations take place in a smooth, effective and systematic way without any negative business impact.
OCI Discovery and Assessment
In OCI Discovery and Assessment refers to the Discovery, Assessment, and Planning phase of an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure project. This phase is part of the life cycle of any cloud project which includes Evaluation, Discovery, Assessment, and Planning, Implementation, Operations, and Evolution and Optimizations.
During this phase, stakeholders’ details, challenges, requirements, and responsibilities are collected. An inventory of physical and virtual infrastructure such as servers, storage, switches, and their uses is created. An inventory of applications, software, and current licensing is also created. Current implementation details and architectures are collected. Modernization and migration pattern and operating model are determined. Security and compliance requirements are also collected.
Our cloud management services may assist you with cost control, policy setting, governance, and cloud environment optimization using best practices that will increase ROI and reduce risk once your workloads are in the cloud.
We work with you to determine which approach works best for your organization – public, private or hybrid. As a part of our cloud migration consulting services, we take a customer-centric approach, pre-set templates and data analytics applications to ensure migrations take place in a smooth, effective and systematic way without any negative business impact.
Timeline
The duration of the Discovery, Assessment, and Planning phase of an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure project can vary depending on the size and complexity of the project. It might be time-consuming, and it might not be possible to collect all the required data. In some cases, additional discovery data might be needed depending on the customer environment and requirements. So, it’s important to use your judgement to determine when you have enough information to move on to the next phases of the cloud project.
Key Steps
The steps involved in the Discovery and Assessment phase for cloud migration can vary depending on the cloud provider and the specific project. However, some common steps that are typically involved in this phase include:
Stakeholder identification
Identifying the key stakeholders involved in the project, their roles and responsibilities, and their requirements and challenges.
Infrastructure Inventory
Creating an inventory of the physical and virtual infrastructure, including servers, storage, switches, and their uses.
Application inventory
Creating an inventory of the applications, software, and current licensing.
Current implementation analysis
Analysing the current implementation details and architectures.
Modernization and migration planning
Determining the modernization and migration pattern and operating model.
Security and compliance assessment
Assessing the security and compliance requirements.
These steps can help you to collect the necessary information to plan for a successful cloud migration.
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