In my previous article I explained how to configure Assessment for Azure Migration.
Here after are all the detailed steps to Migrate local VMs to Azure and validate.
Azure Migrate: Server Migration
This is a 3 steps process:
- Replicate
- Test migration
- Migrate
Replicate
- Click on Replicate
- Select Yes, with VMware vSphere, select the on-premises appliance and click on Next: Virtual machines
- Select Yes, apply migration settings from a Azure Migrate assessment, select group, assessment and the VM(s) you want to migrate. Click on Next: Target settings
- Provide information and click on Next: Compute
- As it’s for test purpose, I will keep the proposed Azure VM Size and click on Next: Disks
- Click on Next: Review + Start replication
- Click on Replicate
- The process starts
- After the resource creation, the server replication starts
Test migration
- Click on Overview
- Click on Test migration
- You can click on Refresh to see the percentage of advancement
- When you see Test migration pending under Migration phase, make a right-click and select Test migration
- Select the Virtual Network and click on Test migration
- The Test migration begins
- When you see Test clean up pending under migration phase, click on the server
- Ensure everything is green and click on Virtual Machine
- Click on the VM
- Click on Connect
- Click on Download RDP File
- Click on Open
- Provide credentials and click on OK
- Validate that you can open a session and all the roles are present. Logoff from the VM
Switch back to Azure Migrate – Servers
- Click on Replicating servers
- Make a right-click on the server and select Clean up test migration
- Provide a comment, select the box to delete the test virtual machine and click on Cleanup Test
Migration
- When Migration phase indicate Ready to migrate, make a right-click and select Migrate
- Keep the option to Shutdown the VM and click on Migrate
- Once the VM is migrated, the status change to Migrated
Validation
- Click on Virtual Machines
- Click on the VM
- Click on Connect
- Click on Download RDP File
- Click on Open
- Provide credentials and click on OK
- Click on Yes (or No depending your requirements)
- This server is a Domain Controller which acts also as DNS server so I will need to make some changes:
- Add Site Name
- Add Site Subnet
- Add another
Feedback
The tool is easy to implement and use, the conversion from EFI to BIOS for Boot option which is integrated is useful and, I think, mandatory to help customer to migrate, as VMware recommend EFI for Boot option.
Be careful if you test this tool as, it’s a migration tool, so you will not be able to switch back to on-premises.
If you want to test it, just take Snapshot of the VM before for quick and easy rollback.
Do not test with a Domain Controller, if replication occurs between Azure and on-premises you should have some issue with the rollback.
If you have any comment feel free to share here.
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