How to Schedule Cloud Migrations to Avoid Business Disruption

One of the core areas of cloud migration planning that many businesses miss out on is planning the schedule and overall timeline. With a properly scheduled migration, the risks of disruption and user impact are little to none.

In this guide, learn how to schedule cloud migration for your company and ensure a smooth transition to the new cloud platform.

Key Takeaways:

  • Creating a proper schedule is a must when planning cloud migration.
  • Schedule one-time migration during regular weeks
  • Schedule delta migration during weekends or day offs.

Schedule One-Time Migration During Regular Weeks

When it comes to the main stage of the migration (one-time migration), it is best to do it during regular weeks. With an advanced cloud migration tool like CloudFuze Migrate, you can perform the entire one-time migration process in the background.

Our migration tool implements the API-based approach through which the data transfer process is performed in the background.

One-time cloud migration schedule

As a result, users can continue working on the source cloud platform without any disruption to their ongoing work, which gives your IT team the flexibility to schedule the migration during regular weeks.

Schedule Delta Migration During Weekends, Day Offs, Non-Working Hours

Contrary to one-time migration, delta migration needs to be scheduled during non-working hours or days, such as weekends and holidays.

Since delta migration is about transferring the incremental changes that users have made during one-time migration to the destination cloud, it is important to perform it during non-working days and hours to prevent newer incremental changes from accumulating during the delta migration process.

Delta migration schedule

At CloudFuze, we schedule delta migration during weekends to help our customers transfer all the incremental changes with single or multiple delta sync processes to prevent the risk of newer incremental changes.

With this strategic delta migration schedule, you can perform a seamless cutover and onboard users to the destination cloud platform.

What Are the Key Steps in Creating a Cloud Migration Schedule?

Here are some of the proven steps to create a cloud migration schedule that ensures zero disruption to users and overall operations:

  • Choose a migration tool and plan the scope of work
  • Create user mapping and batches
  • Plan the roadmap and timeline
  • Plan the one-time migration stage during regular weeks
  • Plan the delta migration stage during weekends or day offs

This approach has worked for all our customers and has helped them migrate to their preferred platforms successfully, securely, and on time.

How to Prioritize Workloads for Cloud Migration Scheduling?

Planning around workloads is also one of the most important aspects of creating a strategic cloud migration schedule. With CloudFuze Migrate, you can equally prioritize all types of workloads when performing a multi-workload cloud migration.

We use dedicated instances and allocate multiple instances for multi-workload migration. With this approach, you can migrate all types of workloads, such as files and folders, chat messages, emails, etc., by running the migration in parallel.

Parallel processing migration

Migrate With a Strategic Schedule with CloudFuze

Leverage our 12+ years of migration expertise to create a strategic migration schedule for your company and transition to the new cloud platform on time. Our proven methodology can help you with challenges and navigate the technical journey without any hurdles.

Contact us to learn more about cloud migration scheduling and timeline planning.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the top cloud migration service providers with scheduling features?

CloudFuze is one of the top cloud migration service providers that can assist businesses in scheduling their cloud migration with two distinctive stages, one-time migration, and delta migration.

2. How to plan and schedule a phased cloud migration approach?

To plan and schedule a phased cloud migration, identify all the migration stages. It is also important to implement the batch-wise migration process by creating multiple batches of the total number of users.

3. Book a consultation for cloud migration scheduling assistance

If you want cloud migration scheduling assistance, then you can book a consultation with CloudFuze free of charge. Contact CloudFuze here.

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