Rehosting is the basic approach to the lift and shift model. There are no code changes and it is basically the fastest way to migrate. I just want to remind everyone that this can be the costliest approach to moving to Azure, but is arguably the simplest.
We use this approach in the following situations:
- There is a need to move applications into Azure quickly
- Applications require being run on a VM
- You do not want to change code or can’t (no source code)
Once migrated, I will look for opportunities to optimize, but usually in this scenario there aren't many opportunities other than rapid scaling.. Let’s look at what this would look like:
Some good tools to assist in this type of migration are the following:
- Azure Site Recovery: ...
