1 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:02,470 Now let's take a look at the architecture. 2 00:00:02,470 --> 00:00:04,820 This diagram is from the Microsoft Docs, 3 00:00:04,820 --> 00:00:08,580 and as usual, you can see an attribution in the lower left corner of the slide. 4 00:00:08,580 --> 00:00:11,370 Let's take the diagram from the bottom up. 5 00:00:11,370 --> 00:00:14,930 We've got in our on‑premises environment a collection of not 6 00:00:14,930 --> 00:00:18,580 only Windows Server SMB file servers that are running a 7 00:00:18,580 --> 00:00:21,450 various collection of versions, all the way down, 8 00:00:21,450 --> 00:00:24,660 believe it or not, to Windows Server 2003. 9 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:27,340 Long out of support by Microsoft. 10 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:31,410 So Storage Migration Service can help you with longstanding issues. 11 00:00:31,410 --> 00:00:35,380 Like we have these archaic servers that we know are vulnerable 12 00:00:35,380 --> 00:00:38,540 because they're no longer supported by Microsoft. 13 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:43,170 Let's move those file shares without interrupting our application services 14 00:00:43,170 --> 00:00:47,410 and users to a newer local server or maybe even to Azure. 15 00:00:47,410 --> 00:00:52,770 Now there's also compatibility here for NetApp storage appliances, 16 00:00:52,770 --> 00:00:55,060 as well as Linux machines running Samba, 17 00:00:55,060 --> 00:00:56,440 the file server. 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,340 But we're concerned for AZ‑801's sake mainly the Windows Server scenario. 19 00:01:01,340 --> 00:01:05,290 So this is showing a separate host acting as the Storage 20 00:01:05,290 --> 00:01:09,160 Migration Service orchestrator that does the inventory and 21 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,750 migration and cutover process for you. 22 00:01:11,750 --> 00:01:13,910 And then, as I said, destination‑wise, 23 00:01:13,910 --> 00:01:19,430 you can stay on‑premises and migrate to new Windows Server physical servers, 24 00:01:19,430 --> 00:01:23,540 virtual machines, Azure Stack, IaaS clusters, 25 00:01:23,540 --> 00:01:27,590 but you also have the capability of doing Azure Migrate 26 00:01:27,590 --> 00:01:32,050 Server Migration to just go ahead and migrate those servers 27 00:01:32,050 --> 00:01:35,330 in entirety as IaaS Azure VMs. 28 00:01:35,330 --> 00:01:40,940 And then most recently, if you're not interested in doing full server migration, 29 00:01:40,940 --> 00:01:44,650 you can use Azure File Sync as a way to extend and 30 00:01:44,650 --> 00:01:47,440 consolidate your local file shares. 31 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,650 And it's a really neat service. 32 00:01:48,650 --> 00:01:52,370 We'll learn more about it next that can actually solve a 33 00:01:52,370 --> 00:01:54,030 whole bunch of different problems. 34 00:01:54,030 --> 00:01:58,440 It's hard to summarize AFS in just one sentence. 35 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,770 The Storage Migration Service workflow is really three steps. 36 00:02:01,770 --> 00:02:02,570 One, 37 00:02:02,570 --> 00:02:05,610 we need to perform an inventory to know what's there 38 00:02:05,610 --> 00:02:09,180 with regard to those file shares, their access control lists, 39 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:10,840 all of that good stuff. 40 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,380 We then perform the transfer. 41 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:14,880 And then lastly, we cutover. 42 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,220 Now that cutover is pretty significant because it may very 43 00:02:18,220 --> 00:02:20,850 well involve you mapping IP addresses, 44 00:02:20,850 --> 00:02:24,560 which the Storage Migration Service can also help you accomplish. 45 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,240 Because after all, 46 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,620 you don't want to mess up any drive mappings or any other connections that use, 47 00:02:30,620 --> 00:02:34,030 say, DNS or maybe even an IPv4 address. 48 00:02:34,030 --> 00:02:37,130 You want the target server, in all likelihood, 49 00:02:37,130 --> 00:02:45,000 to maintain those mappings, and you can do that. Now let's take a look at migration to Azure file shares.