Migrating VMware VMs (vCenter 6,7,8) to Azure

[bledd]

Migrating VMware VMs (vCenter 6,7,8) to Azure

Hi,

Anyone have experience of the above? Wondering what the rough steps are for doing it..

Let's say 1 VM at a time. Planning to keep some VMs on site. Have the option of moving to HyperV or upgrading to new VMware hosts. Currently on an older version of VMware.

Thanks

 

[Armageus]

Could you use Veeam as the middle man?

 

[khrall]

Look at Azure Migrate.

It will allow you to do discovery, right-sizing, and cost-optimisation, prior to migrating your workloads.

 

[bledd]

Could you use Veeam as the middle man?

We have Veeam. It can go from VMware to Azure?

 

[Armageus]

We have Veeam. It can go from VMware to Azure?

From what I could see when I looked last night

Restore to Microsoft Azure - User Guide for VMware vSphere

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to restore different workloads (VMs, Google VM instances, physical servers and so on) from backups to Microsoft Azure. You can use Veeam Backup & Replication to complete...

helpcenter.veeam.com

 

[LizardKing]

Look at Azure Migrate.

It will allow you to do discovery, right-sizing, and cost-optimisation, prior to migrating your workloads.

This is the way! It also keeps the hosted vm in sync with the exi vm so when it comes to swapping them over the final sync is kept to a min.

 

[malachi]

Look at Azure Migrate.

It will allow you to do discovery, right-sizing, and cost-optimisation, prior to migrating your workloads.

Same way I have done this.

Always best to use Azure built in tools instead of messing around with 3rd party tools such as Veeam.

 

[bledd]

Thanks for the ideas gents, appreciated.

 

[Sarah_Maguir]

Several third-party tools specialize in VM migrations to Azure from various virtualization platforms, including VMware. These tools often offer additional features such as automated discovery, workload assessment, and seamless migration workflows. Examples of such tools include Carbonite , Sharegate , Gs Richcopy360 , and Goodsync .

If you prefer manual approach, you can use Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI to migrate VMware VMs to Azure. This method involves exporting the VMs from VMware, converting them into Azure-compatible virtual hard disks (VHDs), and then uploading the VHDs to Azure storage. Once the VHDs are in Azure, you can use them to create new Azure VMs.

 

[m4cc45]

Not sure why you'd want a manual approach. Azure Migrate is the simplest options, offers most of what the third-party tools offer, and is free.


M.

 

[Spleen Sauce]

Azure Migrate. Completed many projects with this. For the obscure VM that won't go there are tools to convert to VHD and you can import that, but its unlikely you'll need to go down that route.

 

[jfish]

I am doing this at the moment got a few ESXi servers running multiple Windows virtual servers, planning on migrating to Hyper V on Server 2022

I have done a test migration using StarWind V2V Convertor and successfully migrated a complete VM from ESXi to Hyper V

 

[fredwi]

Make sure you reserve your vms that you need on 24/7 and turn off anything you can to keep costs down

Also shrink any disks you can before you migrate m, you can go up disk sku size but not down. So if you are only using 20gb of a 512gb disk you’re paying for the 512gb space

You can do it but by downloading the file edit it and re upload

 

[LostCorpse]

its all about the costs mitigation in the cloud

 

[fredwi]

In an ideal world as you know do not do iaas

 

[ZedPowered]

Another vote for azure migrate