MicroNugget: How to Migrate a Workload

In this video, Anthony Sequeira covers migrations of workloads and the cloud. When dealing with transfer of workloads to the cloud, there are tools, resources and concepts that it's important to deal with first. Watch and get a sense of what the migrations are and how to do them.

A good first step is to define workload. When we're speaking of the cloud, a workload can be a virtual machine, a container, or even an application. The cloud is an evolving technology, but what defines the "cloud" is also constantly evolving.

Increasingly, we have all these workloads, and we need the flexibility to migrate them from on-premise to the cloud, or maybe from one cloud to another.

There are four migration types to keep in mind: P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P.

• Physical to Virtual (P2V) is when you're running resources on a physical server and want to migrate it to a virtual machine.

• Virtual to Virtual (V2V) happens when we have virtual machines on-premise that we're looking to migrate to virtual instances in the cloud.

• Virtual to Physical (V2P) is rare, and it's usually only going to be done to rollback previous decisions or undo problems with virtualization.

• Physical to Physical (P2P) is also rare, and you'd only move a physical server on-premise to a physical server in the cloud if you needed to maintain better security or performance metrics.

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