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A healthcare provider plans to migrate a medical imaging portal and archiving application from an on-premises Hyper-V environment to Azure. The application architecture includes a front-end IIS web portal, an application tier, a SQL Server database cluster utilizing cross-database queries, and a network file share. To ensure a successful migration, you must identify all active network connections, ports, and dependencies between the application components and external systems before grouping servers into migration waves.

Which approach should you include in the migration assessment strategy?

  1. A
    Plan the migration of the application tiers into separate resource groups based on CPU utilization, then use Azure Monitor network logs post-migration to identify and resolve broken connection dependencies.
  2. Deploy the Azure Migrate appliance to the Hyper-V host, configure agentless dependency analysis to discover network connections, and recommend Azure SQL Managed Instance as the target for the database tier.Answer
  3. C
    Recommend Azure SQL Database single database for hosting the database tier to reduce hosting costs, and deploy the Azure Migrate dependency agent on each Hyper-V VM to map external ports.
  4. D
    Deploy Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to manage the identity synchronization for database administrators, and perform schema mapping using Azure Data Studio before analyzing network dependencies.

Answer

Deploy the Azure Migrate appliance to the Hyper-V host, configure agentless dependency analysis to discover network connections, and recommend Azure SQL Managed Instance as the target for the database tier.
Deploying the Azure Migrate appliance to perform agentless dependency analysis is the correct approach to discover active connections and ports without VM agent installation overhead. Furthermore, Azure SQL Managed Instance is the correct migration target for the SQL Server cluster because it natively supports legacy features like cross-database queries.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Select the discovery tool and deployment model
The Azure Migrate appliance is deployed to the on-premises Hyper-V host to discover virtual machines and collect metadata.
An appliance-based discovery is required to scan Hyper-V environments and gather performance data and dependency metrics agentlessly.
2
Analyze workload network dependencies
Agentless dependency analysis is enabled to identify active TCP connections, ports, and communication paths between tiers.
This ensures that dependent servers (like the application tier and network file share) are grouped into the same migration wave, minimizing post-migration latency and service disruption.
3
Map database features to target Azure services
Azure SQL Managed Instance is chosen as the target database tier rather than Azure SQL Database.
Azure SQL Managed Instance provides near 100% compatibility with the SQL Server database engine, supporting cross-database queries required by the application.

Key Concept

Azure Migrate dependency assessment and target tier selection for SQL Server migration
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Migration Assessment and Strategy

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