Assessing Migration Risks

You can assess potential migration risks before performing a migration. The assessment results will indicate whether your source servers are compatible with the target cloud in terms of OS, firmware, and specifications.

Only servers can be assessed for migration risks.

Prerequisites

Source servers have been discovered and their details have been collected. For details, see the sections about online discovery, intranet discovery, import, and manual addition in Resource Discovery and Management.

Procedure

Sign in to the MgC console. In the navigation pane, under Project, select an application migration project from the drop-down list.
In the navigation pane, choose Migration Solutions.
Click View Assessment List in the Migration Risks Assessment card.
On the Server tab, view the list of all source servers.
- To assess all servers in the Pending assessment state, click Assess above the list. In the dialog box that is displayed, click OK.
- To assess certain servers, search for them by name, IP address, platform, or application and select them. Then click Assess above the list. In the displayed dialog box, confirm the number of servers to be assessed and click OK.
View the assessment status and the number of identified migration risks at each level for the servers. Click a server name or a number in the row. On the Migration Risks tab displayed on the right, view all check items, server information required for checking each item, and risk levels.
Rectify the migration risks for the server based on the suggestions provided by the system. Then click Assess in the Operation column to assess the server again.