Cloud Transformation

Migration to Alibaba Cloud in Waves

Discover and assess, build the landing zone first, prove a pilot, then move servers, databases and files wave by wave.

Servers move with Server Migration Center, databases with Data Transmission Service and files with Data Online Migration, into a landing zone built first. Discovery and ADAM assessment feed a wave plan; a pilot proves the pattern; each wave passes a go / no-go gate, then a period of hyper-care before operations take over.

replicatesynccopyData centre · source estateAlibaba CloudMove · migration servicesLanding zone · built first (Wave 0)Workload VPCBaseline in every accountPlan and run · NGT with the customerServersVMware, physicalDatabasesFiles and objectsServer MigrationCenterreplicate, test, cut overData TransmissionServicefull load, then syncData OnlineMigrationinto OSSECSrehosted serversPolarDB / ApsaraDBRDS for MySQLOSSObject Storage ServiceApplication LoadBalancerACKreplatform laterCloud BackupCloud GovernanceCenterCEN Transit Routerto the data centreActionTrailCloudMonitorSecurity CenterBudgetsDiscoveryservers, apps, dataADAMdatabase assessmentWave planmove groupsPilota low-risk workloadGo / no-goper waveCutoverin the change windowHyper-careafter go-liveManaged operationsFinOps, CloudOps, SecOps

Point at a component to light its links; select it for what it does here and the practice that makes it right on Alibaba Cloud.

When to use it

  • A data-centre exit or hardware refresh with many servers to move
  • Databases that must move with little downtime
  • Rehost first, then replatform where it pays

How NGT delivers it

Built from code, reviewed at a gate by an NGT architect, and handed over with runbooks your team can run.

Cloud Transformation