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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