How to migrate your VMs to Azure and why | Complete tutorial with new business case in 2023

Move on-premises VMware or Hyper-V workloads to the cloud with Azure Migrate. Discover and assess your VMs, generate a business case for moving Windows and Linux VMs into Azure, and use integrated tools to replicate and migrate your VMs into production running on Azure.

Get Extended Security Updates until October 2026 along with upgrade rights to a supported Windows Server release if you’re migrating Windows Server 2012 VMs to Azure.  

Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, gives a quick overview of how to migrate your VMware virtual machines to Azure.

► QUICK LINKS:

00:00 - Introduction

00:31 - Prerequisites

01:12 - VM discovery

03:15 - Discovered servers

04:12 - New business case assessment

05:55 - Create an assessment to migrate VMs into Azure

06:54 - Replicate VMs into Azure

08:35 - Run test migrations

09:14 - Migrate VMs into production

09:47 - Wrap up

► Link References:

Set up permissions in Azure at https://aka.ms/VMwarePrereqs

Details to migrate complete VMware environments and run them in Azure at https://aka.ms/AVSmechanics

For expert migration help go to https://azure.com/AMMP

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