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This article explains how to create migration waves in Azure Migrate to group workloads, sequence migrations, and plan execution efficiently for reduced risk and improved migration speed.
To create migration waves, group your applications and workloads into logical sets that you can be migrated together. These groups called waves help you execute migrations in smaller, manageable batches, reduce risk and improving efficiency. The key planning actions include:
- Distribute workloads into waves: Group workloads and applications that share dependencies or business requirements. This ensures they migrate together without breaking the application's functionality.
- Sequence waves: Prioritize waves based on factors such as business criticality, complexity, and migration impact.
- Parallelize where safe: Run independent waves in parallel to accelerate migration speed without introducing risk.
For more information on grouping and sequencing, see, Azure Cloud Adoption Framework – Migration Wave Planning.
Create Waves using Azure portal
To create Migration Waves manually using Azure Migrate portal, follow these steps:
Select your project from All Projects in Azure portal.
In Overview pane, select Create Wave
Enter a unique name in Wave name for execution and tracking.
Enter the Planned start date for the wave migration.
Optional Select an Assessment to get recommendations on the Azure targets and workload configurations. Use an assessment to accelerate wave planning.
Select the Migration path from the assessment based on your business strategy. If the assessment includes only a single path, this option isn't available.
Review, add, and remove workloads and applications that you want to include in the wave. You can use filters to refine the selection.
If you select an assessment, workloads and applications are limited to its scope of that assessment. You can add more workloads and applications later.After you finalized the wave components, select Create Wave.
In few seconds, Azure Migrate creates the wave project. To view it, select View Waves in the Project overview.
The created wave includes the workloads and applications you selected. If you selected an assessment, the workloads and applications default to the migration targets and configurations defined in that assessment.
Next steps
Learn more about complete your wave planning in Azure Migrate.