Advantages and Challenges of Using AI Planning in Cloud Migration

Hongtan Sun, Maja Vukovic, John Rofrano, Chen Lin

Keywords: AI planning, Cloud Migration

TL;DR: In this short paper, we briefly introduce the advantages of using AI planning in Cloud Migration, a preliminary prototype, as well as the chal- lenges the requires attention from the planning and schedul- ing society.

Abstract: Cloud Migration transforms customer’s data, application and services from original IT platform to one or more cloud en- vironment, with the goal of improving the performance of the IT system while reducing the IT management cost. The enterprise level Cloud Migration projects are generally com- plex, involves dynamically planning and replanning various types of transformations for up to 10k endpoints. Currently the planning and replanning in Cloud Migration are generally done manually or semi-manually with heavy dependency on the migration expert’s domain knowledge, which takes days to even weeks for each round of planning or replanning. As a result, automated planning engine that is capable of gener- ating high quality migration plan in a short time is particu- larly desirable for the migration industry. In this short paper, we briefly introduce the advantages of using AI planning in Cloud Migration, a preliminary prototype, as well as the challenges the requires attention from the planning and scheduling society.