You are planning a large-scale migration of 500 on-premises VMware virtual machines to Azure.

You need to group the VMs into 'migration waves' based on their network dependencies (e.g., Web server talks to App server, App server talks to DB server). The security team prohibits installing any agents on the guest operating systems of the VMs.

Which tool and feature should you use?

To group VMs into migration waves, you must understand their interdependencies so you don't break applications by migrating a web server without its database. Azure Migrate provides Dependency Analysis. Because the security team prohibits guest OS agents, you must use the 'Agentless Dependency Analysis' feature. This feature works specifically for VMware environments by communicating with the vCenter Server APIs to capture TCP connection data directly from the hypervisor, requiring zero installation on the VMs themselves.