Basically, it is an approach described as decoupling and
migrating a server’s operating system and data from a physical server to a
virtual machine guest hosted on a virtualized platform (or the cloud). It is
called as one of the best features of server virtualization is the ability to
migrate physical server workloads to virtual servers.
The physical to virtual migration choice allows you to remove
aging servers, thus deducting the number of physical servers needed in a data
center. Firstly, a physical server must be virtualized and then migrated into
the cloud. Once you’ve virtualized, you will have to repeat the steps to
migrate the server into a cloud. The
first step while starting with a physical-to-cloud migration is to identify the
tools that you will use to execute your migration and the system you want to
migrate. The key point here is that you don’t have to migrate twice SaaS automatically virtualizes a physical
server during the conversion process of migrating the physical server into the
target cloud.
