Performance-based Confidence Ratings

Each performance-based Azure VM assessment in Azure Migrate is associated with a confidence rating. The rating ranges from one (lowest) to five (highest) stars. The confidence rating helps you estimate the reliability of the size recommendations Azure Migrate provides.

  • The confidence rating is assigned to an assessment. The rating is based on the availability of data points that are needed to compute the assessment.

  • For performance-based sizing, the assessment needs:

    • The utilization data for CPU and RAM.
    • The disk IOPS and throughput data for every disk attached to the server.
    • The network I/O to handle performance-based sizing for each network adapter attached to a server.

If any of these utilization numbers isn't available, the size recommendations might be unreliable.

Note

Confidence ratings aren't assigned for servers assessed using an imported CSV file. Ratings also aren't applicable for as-is on-premises assessment.

Ratings

This table shows the assessment confidence ratings, which depend on the percentage of available data points:

Availability of data points Confidence rating
0-20% One star
21-40% Two stars
41-60% Three stars
61-80% Four stars
81-100% Five stars

Low confidence ratings

Here are a few reasons why an assessment could get a low confidence rating:

  • You didn't profile your environment for the duration for which you're creating the assessment. For example, if you create the assessment with performance duration set to one day, you must wait at least a day after you start discovery for all the data points to get collected.

  • Assessment isn't able to collect the performance data for some or all the servers in the assessment period. For a high confidence rating, ensure that:

    • Servers are powered on for the duration of the assessment.
    • Outbound connections on ports 443 are allowed.
    • For Hyper-V servers, dynamic memory is enabled.

Recalculate the assessment to reflect the latest changes in confidence rating.

  • Some servers were created during the time for which the assessment was calculated. For example, assume you created an assessment for the performance history of the last month, but some servers were created only a week ago. In this case, the performance data for the new servers won't be available for the entire duration and the confidence rating would be low.

Note

If the confidence rating of any assessment is less than five stars, we recommend that you wait at least a day for the appliance to profile the environment and then recalculate the assessment. Otherwise, performance-based sizing might be unreliable. In that case, we recommend that you switch the assessment to on-premises sizing.

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