Updated on 2025-08-19 GMT+08:00

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

  1. Sign in to the MgC console. In the navigation pane, under Project, select an application migration project from the drop-down list.
  2. In the navigation pane, choose Migration Path.
  3. Click the Migration Risk Assessments tab and click Assess Migration Risk.

    Figure 1 Assess migration risks

  4. Set the parameters listed in Table 1.

    Table 1 Selecting source resources

    Parameter

    Description

    Report Name

    User-defined

    Select Resource

    Choose Select Resource to select the specific resources to be assessed.

    Choose Select application to select a group of source resources (called an application). Ensure that the servers to be assessed have been grouped into an application.

    1. In the Select Application drop-down list, select the application that contains the servers to be assessed.
    2. In the resource list, select the servers to be assessed.

  5. Click Assess. The assessment details page is displayed. The system starts to assess migration risks for the selected servers.
  6. 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.

  7. 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. Alternatively, select multiple servers and click Assess above the list.

Exporting Assessment Results

You can export the assessment results in either of the following ways:

  • In the assessment report list on the Migration Risk Assessments page, click the report name. On the displayed page, click Export to download the assessments result as an .xlsx file to the local PC.
  • On the Migration Risk Assessments page, locate the assessment report name and click Export in the Operation column. Then the assessment results will be downloaded as an .xlsx file to the local PC.