Migration path from on premise VM to Azure IAS VM

Hello Everyone,

In today's post we are going to elaborate on the ways, we can migrate the On-premise servers running SQL server to Azure VMs. The path basically depends on following few factors

1. The on-premise SQL version you are using.
2. The destination SQL version your application is targeting for.
3. The amount of downtime you can have during migration.
4. The size of the databases you have on-premises to migrate to Azure.
5. The license type you are going to use after migration.
6. The current HA/DR solution in place for On-premise databases.

Below excel file should help you figure out the best path for your migration. Let me know in comments if it is helpful or you would like some additions.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=14YKAlY98Az2-SsNiQ0zx4EfChET6Vld89LxaXulNE8s

Thanks and keep exploring 😊