Port configuration for cloud migration readiness

A computer readable medium including instructions, the instructions being executable by a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

• receiving flow information regarding a plurality of flow packets from network traffic analyzing platforms, the network traffic analyzing platforms being in communication with an enterprise network, the plurality of flow packets indicating network traffic into and out of flow sources of the enterprise network;
• for each particular flow packet of the plurality of flow packets:
• determining a communication tuple, the communication tuple including a source port and a destination port, the source port being associated with one entity of a plurality of entities of the enterprise network, the destination port being associated with another entity of the plurality of entities of the enterprise network;
• identifying one or more entities of the enterprise network based on the communication tuple;
• and
• incrementing a transport frequency table for the identified one or more entities of the enterprise network;
• generating the transport frequency table for each identified entity of the plurality of entities of the enterprise network, the transport frequency table keeping count of a number of times a port of the identified entity is identified in one of the plurality of received flow packets;
• for each communication tuple of a plurality of communication tuples, designating one of the source port and the destination port as one of a plurality of server ports, and designating an other of the source port and the destination port as one of a plurality of client ports based at least on based on the transport frequency table;
• receiving utilization performance measurements including memory utilization measurements of at least one of the plurality of designated server ports and identified dependencies;
• identifying dependencies among compute, network, and storage elements of an enterprise system, the enterprise system including any number of networks, applications on servers, and storage devices which are on-premise;
• identifying a plurality of workloads of the enterprise network, the identifying the plurality of workloads being based on received utilization performance measurements and the identified dependencies;
• generating a discovery report based on the identified plurality of workloads, the discovery report including at least one of the plurality of designated server ports and at least one of the plurality of designed client ports associated with the identified plurality of workloads;
• grouping workloads based on the identified dependencies, and the utilization performance measurements into affinity groups;
• determining, for each of the affinity groups, a setting for a virtual firewall, the setting for the virtual firewall including a subset of designated server ports and a subset of designated client ports;
• determining at least one representative synthetic workload for each affinity group, the at least one representative synthetic workload including at least one of the subset of designated server ports and at least one of the subset of designated client ports opened;
• determining at least one cloud service provider (CSP)'s cloud services based on performance of the representative synthetic workloads;
• and
• generating a report for at least one of the representative synthetic workloads, the report identifying the at least one of the representative synthetic workloads, the determination that at least one of the subset and the at least one CSP's cloud services including cloud workload cost, the cloud workload cost being based on a periodic cost associated with executing the at least one of the representative synthetic workload on the at least one CSP's cloud services.

A method comprising:

• receiving flow information regarding a plurality of flow packets from network traffic analyzing platforms, the network traffic analyzing platforms being in communication with an enterprise network, the plurality of flow packets indicating network traffic into and out of flow sources of the enterprise network;
• for each particular flow packet of the plurality of flow packets:
• determining a communication tuple, the communication tuple including a source port and a destination port, the source port being associated with one entity of a plurality of entities of the enterprise network, the destination port being associated with another entity of the plurality of entities of the enterprise network;
• identifying one or more entities of the enterprise network based on the communication tuple;
• and
• incrementing a transport frequency table for the identified one or more entities of the enterprise network;
• generating the transport frequency table for each identified entity of the plurality of entities of the enterprise network, the transport frequency table keeping count of a number of times a port of the identified entity is identified in one of the plurality of received flow packets;
• for each communication tuple of a plurality of communication tuples, designating one of the source port and the destination port as one of a plurality of server ports, and designating an other of the source port and the destination port as one of a plurality of client ports based at least on based on the transport frequency table;
• receiving utilization performance measurements including memory utilization measurements of at least one of the plurality of designated server ports and identified dependencies;
• identifying dependencies among compute, network, and storage elements of an enterprise system, the enterprise system including any number of networks, applications on servers, and storage devices which are on-premise;
• identifying a plurality of workloads of the enterprise network, the identifying the plurality of workloads being based on received utilization performance measurements and the identified dependencies;
• generating a discovery report based on the identified plurality of workloads, the discovery report including at least one of the plurality of designated server ports and at least one of the plurality of designed client ports associated with the identified plurality of workloads;
• grouping workloads based on the identified dependencies, and the utilization performance measurements into affinity groups;
• determining, for each of the affinity groups, a setting for a virtual firewall, the setting for the virtual firewall including a subset of designated server ports and a subset of designated client ports;
• determining at least one representative synthetic workload for each affinity group, the at least one representative synthetic workload including a determination that at least one of the subset of designated server ports and at least one of the subset of designated client ports opened;
• determining at least one cloud service provider (CSP)'s cloud services based on performance of the representative synthetic workloads;
• and
• generating a report for at least one of the representative synthetic workloads, the report identifying the at least one of the representative synthetic workloads, the determination that at least one of the subset and the at least one CSP's cloud services including cloud workload cost, the cloud workload cost being based on a periodic cost associated with executing the at least one of the representative synthetic workload on the at least one CSP's cloud services.