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Planning a cloud migration is like going on a trip. Its important to double-check that everything you need is in your suitcase and make sure that all travel sections are on time. When an administrator moves a VM to the cloud, they need to make sure they have the right tools and enough storage to move all their critical virtual infrastructure. Microsofts Azure Migrate can help with this type of task.

Microsoft Azure Migrate It provides IT teams with a centralized portal for discovering, evaluating, and migrating systems and data from their on-premises infrastructure to the Azure cloud.

Administrators can use the portal to move physical and virtual servers, VDIs, databases, web applications, and large datasets. You can use Azure Migrate to migrate your VMs to Azure in private and public clouds. This service is included in your Azure subscription at no additional cost.

Azure Migrate provides a single portal for managing the entire VM migration process. The portal guides administrators through the discovery, evaluation, and migration phases and provides end-to-end operational visibility. Administrators can start, run, track, and analyze workflows.

These tools allow administrators to perform a variety of tasks based on the system or data type they plan to migrate. Organizations need to be aware that Azure Migrate is a one-way service specifically designed to move servers, applications, and data to Azure.

The portal includes:

Azure Migrate also integrates several third-party tools such as Carbonite, Lakeside, RackWare, and UnifyCloud.

For certain operations, the administrator Install a lightweight appliance For infrastructure setup. Azure Migrate uses this appliance to discover and evaluate physical servers, VMware VMs, and Hyper-V VMs. A single Azure Migrate appliance can discover up to 1,000 physical servers, 10,000 VMware VMs, and 5,000 Hyper-V VMs. You can also use the appliance to perform agentless migration of your on-premises VMware VMs.

For administrators who are already using Azure, the service is free, so try Azure Migrate to minimize the risk. However, you may still incur charges if you are using integrated third-party tools or certain Azure services. The Database Migration Service Tool is free for the first 180 days only.

To better understand how Azure Migrate works, administrators need to refer to specific use cases. Suppose your IT department decides to migrate your on-premises Hyper-V VM to an Azure VM.

For this, administrators can use server evaluation and server migration tools with the Azure Migrate appliance. The entire migration process can be divided into three basic phases: discovery, evaluation, and migration.

These steps are short versions of the steps that an administrator must perform on a Hyper-V VM, but they should serve as an overview.

Before attempting to migrate a VM, please refer to the Azure Migrate documentation and pay close attention to potential limits and workload requirements.

Administrators can discover and evaluate up to 35,000 Hyper-V VMs in a single Azure Migrate project. However, a single appliance instance can only detect 5,000 Hyper-V VMs, distributed across 300 Hyper-V hosts. That said, administrators can deploy multiple appliances and create multiple projects. The project can include physical servers, VMware VMs, and Hyper-V VMs.

Hyper-V hosts can be standalone machines or deployed in clusters. It can be used as a server core installation, but the host must have administrator privileges.In addition, the system PowerShell remoting must be enabled, And Hyper-V Integration Services must run on the evaluated VM.

Administrators should consider port settings and storage limits. Azure Migrate only supports Integrated Drive Electronics and SCSI virtual controllers. The system cannot detect machine metadata or dynamic performance data for Hyper-V VMs, but it can for VMware VMs. However, even VMware VMs are limited to detection, not evaluation.

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