Public Preview announcement - Unified migration experience in Azure DMS

We are excited to announce that Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports seamless migration of your MySQL on-premises or Virtual Machine (VM) workloads to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. This new feature, now available in public preview, allows you to use physical backup files of the MySQL server for migration. 

By restoring your physical data files directly to your target Flexible Server, you can migrate multi-terabyte workloads quickly and effortlessly with minimal downtime ensuring a smooth and efficient transition to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server, enabling you to take full advantage of the platform's capabilities.

To migrate your workloads using the Physical Online Data Migration option in Azure DMS, you need to take backups of your workload on the source server using Percona Xtrabackup utility. After taking a backup, upload the backup files to Azure Blob Storage. DMS can read the uploaded backup files from Azure Blob Storage and apply them on the target flexible server for rapid movement of large workloads to MySQL flexible server.

To get started, go to your DMS project and choose "[Preview] Physical Online Data Migration" for migrating your workloads from on-premises or VMs.

Limitations:

• You must create and configure the target Flexible server prior to migrating your physical backup files.
• Migration for encrypted backups isn't supported.
• Migration cancellation during the import operation is not supported.

For more information about using physical online migration with Azure DMS please follow our detailed step-by-step instructions in our documentation: https://aka.ms/dmsPhysicalImportOnlineMigration 

If you have any feedback or questions about the information provided above, please leave a comment below or email us at AskAzureDBforMySQL@service.microsoft.com. Thank you!