I’ve wrote a separate post on the Migration Manager here, which has full step-by-step instructions (and a video) on how to set up a scan-only task. The Migration Manager can be used to create scan-only tasks that will output reports on all your home drive sources and basically enable you to begin scheduling the migrations. In order to find answers to the above questions, I used the SharePoint Migration Manager. So we had to take the metrics above and provide an average based on what little we knew at the time in order to create enough VM’s (we ended up creating six). We wanted to multi-purpose our VM’s to also run migrations for other parts of the M365 project. The total volume of your home drive data.The total file count of your file share data or SharePoint environment (if supported).
They calculate the number of VM’s you need based on: So once you are set up with the FastTrack service, you still need to do all the discovery and analysis as described above before you can provide the migration tracks to them, in order for them to schedule and run the migrations.įast Track also require that you create virtual machines (VM’s) to run the migrations. If you don’t know much about the service, it is something Microsoft offer to assist customers with their migration projects and best of all it’s FREE!
(L-R) How many home drives are there? What is the total volume size of all the home drive data? Do all the users have OneDrive to move to?Īlso during this discovery phase we began working with Microsoft FastTrack.