How to Validate Successful Completion of Cloud Migration?

Moving from one cloud platform to another is not just about migrating users and data but also about proper validation. After migration completion, businesses and their IT teams must validate to ensure all users and data have been transferred as planned.

In this article, we have shared some of the advanced approaches to perform extensive cloud migration validation.

Check Migration Reports

The most important way to validate cloud migrations (of any size) is to check the migration reports. Advanced cloud migration tools, including CloudFuze Migrate, offer detailed reports that helps you check key parameters like:

• The total number of users and data migrated
• The start and end dates of migration
• The total size of files and folders migrated
• Any file or folder conflict status

Make sure to check daily migration reports as well as overall summary reports to validate the migration intricately and at a high level.

Get Feedback from Users

Another important approach to validating cloud migration is getting a different insider perspective. And the best way to do this is to get feedback from the users. After your IT team checks all migration reports, validates the migration successfully, and performs post-migration integration, ask users about their experience.

Here’s a brief questionnaire you can take ideas from before asking users for feedback:

Perform Comparison Delta (If Needed)

In some cases, reports-based cloud migration validation may miss minor details on the completeness of the migration. In such scenarios, performing a comparison delta is one of the best options. It involves comparing data on the source and destination clouds.

Cross-comparing data on both clouds helps understand the similarities and differences (if there are any) which helps you further validate the cloud migration project.

ROI From the Migration (For the First Year and Subsequent Years)

Many businesses gauge the success of migration by analyzing how well the project aligned with their specific use case. While that is true, it’s also important to understand the ROI aspect of it.

Understand the cloud migration’s ROI for the first year and subsequent years using metrics like the total cost of migrating, total cost-savings in the new cloud platform, and more.

Use our cloud migration ROI calculator to estimate how much ROI can your company gain from the migration.

Perform Successful Cloud Migration and Validation with CloudFuze

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the importance of validation in cloud migration?

Validation plays a highly important role as it helps businesses and their IT teams analyze the accuracy of cloud migration. Performing a proper validation by checking reports is a must for cloud migration projects of any size and any source-to-target cloud paths.

2. How to validate migrated data?

Checking migration reports (generated by the cloud migration tool) is the best way to validate migrated data. You must check several key metrics like the size of data migrated, the number of users migrated, migration status, and more.

3. What are the steps to validate cloud migration?

The first step is to wait for migration to be completed. Then, once the tool emails reports, check them to ensure everything is migrated as planned. You can also get feedback from the users to cross-check the accuracy of the migration reports.