Post Cloud Migration Tests

Generally, the data center and cloud migrations are complex, and they set to fail if there is no solid strategy in place. Having the inventory of servers, applications hosted on each workload and dependencies are critical for the success of the project. Refer to this article for cloud migration assessment or data which needs to be gathered for migrations.

Once you have all the data required to group the workloads/ applications to migrate in each migration wave, they need to be tested pre and post-migration to ensure that the workloads/ applications

Cloud/ Datacenter Migration Data Gathering

According to my experience, Datacenter/ Cloud migration projects are one of the challenging and painful projects. Technically, actual server migration is not complicated, but Application dependencies on other apps or infrastructure components (SMTP, LDAP, Exchange, Load balancers, etc.) makes tough with respect to the planning of migration (schedule). The success of the migration depends on what level of data is available about a particular server/application and how you are capturing the details and migration schedule. To take an informed decision about when to migrate a particular server/ application, all application/ server needs to be available.

Cannot see “Certificate Template” while requesting certificate - VMware SSL install

Installing vCenter5.1 certificates is really tedious and confusing process at least first time even though VMware and Derek Seaman very well documented.

While working on updating VMware SSL certificates, I had an issue while submitting a certificate request from the AD Certificate services webpage. Certificate template was missing from the drop-down list. It’s due to the permissions issue on a specific template.