Candidate Readiness & Selection

The Candidate Readiness & Selection report provides a detailed view of virtual machine readiness across your environment. Use this report to review migration readiness checks, identify workloads that require remediation, create migration groups, and add selected virtual machines to those groups for planning and execution.

Available operations:

• View migration readiness results for virtual machines
• Filter and search readiness data by column
• Review individual readiness checks and overall readiness status
• Identify virtual machines with warnings, errors, or unmet migration requirements
• Add selected virtual machines to a new migration group
• Create custom readiness checks to evaluate organization-specific migration requirements

Overview

The Candidate Readiness & Selection report provides a consolidated view of the conditions that may affect whether a virtual machine can be migrated successfully. It answers three important planning questions:

1. Which virtual machines are migration candidates? (Overall readiness and individual check results)
2. Which candidates require remediation before migration? (Warnings, errors, unsupported conditions, and unmet requirements)
3. Which candidates should be grouped into migration waves? (Migration groups and workload selection)

The report combines standard and custom readiness checks into a single view, allowing you to identify migration blockers, prioritize remediation, and organize qualified workloads into migration groups.

Key Benefits

• Assess migration candidate readiness across the virtual machine estate
• Review the result of each readiness check for every virtual machine
• Identify workloads that are ready, require attention, or are blocked
• Prioritize remediation based on warnings and failed checks
• Create custom readiness checks for organization-specific requirements
• Select migration candidates and add them directly to migration groups

The following sections describe how the information presented in the Candidate Readiness & Selection report can be used to assess migration readiness and prepare workloads for migration.

Candidate Readiness Assessment

Use the information in this report to evaluate each virtual machine against the readiness criteria required for migration. Standard checks provide a consistent assessment of common migration requirements, while custom checks allow you to include additional business, technical, or operational criteria.

Readiness Indicators

Candidate Selection

Use the Candidate Readiness & Selection report to identify workloads that meet your migration criteria and organize them into migration groups. Selected virtual machines can be added to a new or existing migration group directly from the report toolbar.

• Select the virtual machines that should be grouped together
• Click the migration-group button on the toolbar
• Create a new migration group or select an existing group
• Add the selected virtual machines to the migration group

Group workloads according to factors such as application dependency, business function, migration readiness, maintenance window, network requirements, or target platform.

Custom Readiness Checks

Custom readiness checks allow you to extend the standard assessment with criteria that reflect your organization’s migration requirements. These checks can be used to evaluate business, application, security, operational, or technical conditions that are not included in the default readiness checks.

Use custom checks to identify conditions such as application-owner approval, backup completion, maintenance-window availability, dependency validation, or organization-specific configuration requirements.

Typical Workflow

The following workflow provides a recommended approach for using the Candidate Readiness & Selection report during migration planning.

1. Review the readiness status of migration candidates
2. Filter the report to identify workloads with warnings or errors
3. Review individual readiness checks
4. Resolve blocking issues and evaluate warnings
5. Apply custom readiness checks, if applicable
6. Select workloads that meet the required readiness criteria
7. Create a migration group and add the selected candidates
8. Reassess readiness as remediation work is completed

This workflow represents a recommended starting point. Revisit the report throughout migration planning to confirm that workloads remain ready and to organize newly qualified virtual machines into migration groups.