Discover & assess

enabled by Azure Arc automatically produces an assessment for migration to Azure.

This assessment plays a vital role in the success of your cloud migration and modernization

journey. Azure Arc simplifies the discovery process and readiness assessment for migration.

The assessment:

Provides cloud readiness, identifies risks, and offers mitigation strategies.

Provides the specific service tier and Azure SQL configuration for each Azure SQL migration

target type that best fits the workload needs.

Provides retail prices for the suggested configuration for each Azure SQL migration target

type.

Suggests the best Azure SQL migration target type based on the chosen migration strategy.

Is generated automatically.

Runs continuously on a default schedule of once per week.

Is free and available for all SQL Server editions.

You can obtain a migration assessment for SQL Servers located anywhere, such as:

Your datacenter.

Edge site locations, such as retail stores.

Public cloud or hosting providers.

The assessment is available for any instance of SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc.

Evaluate and measure the readiness of SQL Server for migration to Azure SQL. This process:

Discovers and assesses the SQL Server instance and databases.

Pinpoints SQL Server workloads that are ready for migration.

Identifies potential compatibility issues with the target environment.

migration assessment features