Database Migration Assistant utility (legacy)

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APPLIES TO: MongoDB

Important

Database Migration Assistant is a preliminary legacy utility meant to assist you with the pre-migration steps. Azure recommends you to use the Azure Cosmos DB Migration for MongoDB extension for all pre-migration steps.

Programmatic discovery using the Database Migration Assistant

You may use the Database Migration Assistant (DMA) to assist you with the discovery stage and create the data estate migration sheet programmatically.

It's easy to setup and run DMA through an Azure Data Studio client. It can be run from any machine connected to your source MongoDB environment.

You can use either one of the following DMA output files as the data estate migration spreadsheet:

  • workload_database_details.csv - Gives a database-level view of the source workload. Columns in file are: Database Name, Collection count, Document Count, Average Document Size, Data Size, Index Count and Index Size.
  • workload_collection_details.csv - Gives a collection-level view of the source workload. Columns in file are: Database Name, Collection Name, Doc Count, Average Document Size, Data size, Index Count, Index Size and Index definitions.

Here's a sample database-level migration spreadsheet created by DMA:

DB Name Collection Count Doc Count Avg Doc Size Data Size Index Count Index Size
bookstoretest 2 192200 4144 796572532 7 260636672
cosmosbookstore 1 96604 4145 400497620 1 1814528
geo 2 25554 252 6446542 2 266240
kagglemeta 2 87934912 190 16725184704 2 891363328
pe_orig 2 57703820 668 38561434711 2 861605888
portugeseelection 2 30230038 687 20782985862 1 450932736
sample_mflix 5 75583 691 52300763 5 798720
test 1 22 545 12003 0 0
testcol 26 46 88 4082 32 589824
testhav 3 2 528 1057 3 36864
TOTAL: 46 176258781 72.01 GB 2.3 GB

Programmatic assessment using the Database Migration Assistant

Database Migration Assistant (DMA) also assists you with the assessment stage of pre-migration planning.

Refer to the section Programmatic discovery using the Database Migration Assistant to know how to setup and run DMA.

The DMA notebook runs a few assessment rules against the resource list it gathers from source MongoDB. The assessment result lists the required and recommended changes needed to proceed with the migration.

The results are printed as an output in the DMA notebook and saved to a CSV file - assessment_result.csv.

Note

Database Migration Assistant does not perform an end-to-end assessment. It is a preliminary utility meant to assist you with the pre-migration steps.