Migration Tool Selector

96 tools from 64 OEMs and vendors — Broadcom, Microsoft, Nutanix, Red Hat, AWS, Google, Oracle, Quest, OpenText, Veeam and Commvault through to free and open-source tooling like StarWind V2V Converter, virt-v2v, Clonezilla and the Proxmox import wizard.

Every tool says whether it is free, open source, included with a platform licence you already hold, freemium or paid — and gives the licence model and the exact steps to license it, including the short-term migration licences vendors rarely advertise.

Six workload directions across 43 platforms: P2V, V2V, V2C, C2V, P2C and C2C. Repatriation from cloud back to an on-premises hypervisor is a first-class scenario, not an afterthought.

Active Directory scenarios — inter-forest, intra-forest restructure, domain rename, consolidation, merger, divestiture, AD to Entra ID, tenant to tenant, hybrid re-platform and workstation-only — each with its own risks and its own shortlist.

Exchange and messaging scenarios including hybrid coexistence, tenant to tenant, Google Workspace in both directions, Notes and GroupWise, public folders and legacy archive migration.

The shortlist is scored against your own constraints and shows both the reasons a tool fits and the gaps it leaves — a purpose-built tool from the platform vendor is never beaten by a generalist on a tie.

Two diagrams are drawn from the answers: the high-level architecture across source, migration fabric and target, and the low-level design with the data path, the shared services and the ports each flow needs.

An eight-phase plan from Discover to Decommission, with the activities for each phase written for the migration you described rather than as generic advice.

Sizing runs on the bandwidth actually available to the migration, discounted for protocol overhead and retries, and turns into a wave plan with exit criteria for each wave.

A risk register that names the risks specific to your scenario alongside the ones every migration meets, each with the mitigation that answers it.

Exports are real Office files — a full Word design document, a twelve-slide deck with editable tables, and a nine-sheet workbook including a wave tracker and the whole tool catalogue. Both diagrams are embedded, and also download on their own as SVG and PNG.

Pricing and licensing carry the date they were last reviewed, on screen and in every export, because these figures move constantly and a design that quotes them should say when they were true.