Overview

Why Is Wave Planning Required?

Cloud migration wave planning is used to divide the migration process into multiple stages for more effective transfer of enterprise applications to the cloud. It aims to lower migration complexity, conduct more effective migration in proper time windows, streamline resources, and analyze risks in each migration phase, thereby minimizing the cloud migration time.

Wave planning is an important task for enterprise cloud migration. Before wave planning, you need to understand the following concepts:

Migration group: It is a collection of applications and infrastructure that have dependencies (including environment dependencies), and includes apps, hosts, storage devices, databases, and middleware.
Migration wave: It is a combination of one or more migration groups that are executed on the same expected start date and end date. One migration wave may include multiple migration groups.
Migration priority: It indicates the migration sequence of applications.
Migration wave planning: It outlines the migration groups, waves, priorities, objects, and timelines for each migration phase.

Figure 1 Migration overview