Question 1
100 Marks
WeTest is a healthcare organization that specializes in paternity and Maternity testing for clients at a fee of R1800.00. The
organisation has their own laboratory. They conduct blood, nails and hair testing. They have private clients, clients from
paternity court, as well as clients from hospitals where it is alleged that a baby was switched at birth. The organization is
currently an on-premises environment, resources are deployed in-house and within an organization’s IT infrastructure. The
organization is responsible for maintaining the solution and all its related processes. They are responsible for the ongoing
costs of the server hardware, power consumption, and space. They retain all their data and are fully in control of what happens
to it, for better or worse. They need a high level of security as they deal with sensitive data. it is imperative that they remain
compliant and know where their data is at all times. They want to save on operational costs, including hardware maintenance.
The organisation wants to use Microsoft Azure to host their websites and applications. Also use Azure for data backup and
disaster recovery. Therefore, the organisation has decided to move from on-premise to Azure cloud. The organisation has
tasked you to create their Azure Migration Plan Report (Use Segoe UI Font, Font colour: Black, Font Size: 11, Minimum 8
pages)
Azure Migrate is a migration service that helps organizations evaluate the benefits of migrating their on-premises
infrastructure, data and applications to the public cloud.
Enterprises are by definition complex, multi-operational businesses that serve customers on a large scale. The cloud, including
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, has increasingly
become the most effective way for enterprises to operate their most critical business applications. For enterprises that are
finally ready to make the move to the cloud, creating an enterprise cloud migration plan is a process that must be completed
in an effective manner and must be done the right way.
What should be included in your Azure Migration Plan Report:
1. The migration model that the application will use: Create an analysis that shows which Azure model is the organization
going to use between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
State reasons for the chosen Azure cloud offering. (Use dummy data for the TCO Calculator based on the brief given on
WeTest organization.)
2. Current state assessment and future state planning: Analyze the current-state of the on-premises environment that WeTest
organization is currently using, to identify the connectivity of the different tiers of the application, their dependencies on on
premises resources if any, and legacy configurations that need to be updated before migration. (Use dummy data for the
TCO Calculator based on the brief given on WeTest organization.)
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3.How to accomplish the move: The objective of the move should result in a lower TCO (total cost of ownership) and
improved performance at lower costs. Discuss in depth how will the migration impact on costs and Use the Azure TCO
Calculator and provide screenshots of the report. (Use dummy data for the TCO Calculator based on the brief given on WeTest
organization.)
4.Storage configuration options: Regardless of whether a migration is based on an IaaS or PaaS model, storage costs will
increase over time. To keep rising costs under control, it is crucial to get to know the different Azure storage types and to
select the storage account type that appropriately meets the application’s performance, read/write operations, and replication
requirements. List the Azure storage types and elaborate on which storage type is best suited for WeTest organization. (Use
dummy data for the TCO Calculator based on the brief given on WeTest organization.)
5. Security and availability solutions: Public cloud usage comes with a major concern: security. With some loss of data
sovereignty and infrastructure control, it is important to make sure to have a strategy for encrypting all at-rest data in place.
For Windows, Bit locker Drive Encryption and Azure Key Vault can be an excellent starting point while devising this strategy.
What Security and availability solutions are we going to use for WeTest organization? (Use dummy data for the TCO Calculator
based on the brief given on WeTest organization.)
6.Migrating and maintaining your Azure deployment: What tools are you going to use to migrate the WeTest data to the
cloud? (Consider Azure Import/Export service, Azure site Recovery, Azure SQL Database Migration tool) (Use dummy data
for the TCO Calculator based on the brief given on WeTest organization.)