Create a group for assessment

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This article describes how to create groups of servers for assessment with Azure Migrate: Discovery and assessment.

Azure Migrate helps you to migrate to Azure. Azure Migrate provides a centralized hub to track discovery, assessment, and migration of on-premises infrastructure, applications, and data to Azure. The hub provides Azure tools for assessment and migration, as well as third-party independent software vendor (ISV) offerings.

Grouping servers

You gather servers into groups to assess whether they're suitable for migration to Azure, and to get Azure sizing and cost estimations for them. There are a couple of ways to create groups:

  • If you know the servers that need be migrated together, you can manually create the group in Azure Migrate.

Create a group manually

You can create a group at the same time that you create an assessment.

If you want to create a group manually outside of creating an assessment, do the following:

  1. In the Azure Migrate project > Overview, click Assess and migrate servers. In Azure Migrate: Discovery and assessment, click Groups

    • If you haven't yet added the Azure Migrate: Discovery and assessment tool, click to add it. Learn more.
    • If you haven't yet created an Azure Migrate project, learn more.

  2. Click the Group icon.

  3. In Create group, specify a group name, and in Appliance name, select the Azure Migrate appliance you're using for server discovery.

  4. From the server list, select the servers you want to add to the group > Create.

You can now use this group when you create an Azure VM assessment.