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Migrate VMs to Azure (Stack HCI)
Hi.
I know this is a bit out of scope, but since Azure Stack HCI is still under the Azure programme, I ask it anyways.
Would it be possible to extend the functionality of Azure Migrate to use an Azure Stack HCI cluster as destination for the VMs to migrate?
Thanks and regards,
Anders
- My company, Corent Technology, has a product that migrate VMs to Azure Stack HCI. Fee free to reach out to me for more details
SeanJaz we are currently using your product and appreciate that your tool is the best option for us to migrate our vmware workloads to Stack HCI, unfortunately we are having several limitations which are limited to the product and as well as the HCI, few examples as below;
1. Windows 2kR2 not 100% supported.
2. LINUX & Cent OS not supported.
3. FCI / ISCSI limitation for shared disk.
4. DMZ servers not fully a robust, need lot of manual intervention.
5. Desktop VM's not supported.
6. Too many prerequisites related to the ADMIN$ share, access to MaaS URL, Port opening, UAC etc, which is not possible in secured environments.
7. The tool does a DISK conversion, and unable to resize the HDD to actual used data.
There are few more in my list, and if these are rectified the product will stand tall and unbeatable in the enterprise market and especially with lot of legacy dependent application owners like us. 🙂
anbukp Thanks for your comments. We continuously make improvements based on feedback from our partners. I will share your feedback with our product management team. Can you send me an email on email address removed for privacy reasons, and also tell me which company you work for?
- Hey Sean , Can you share more details on this ?
- ManideepKotagiri I will be happy to share more information. Email me at email address removed for privacy reasons, and I will send you some documentation. In the meanwhile, I can tell you that we offer Lift and Shift for both windows and Linux, and also automated containerization to Linux Hosted AKS
rahulg1190Microsoft
Anders Jensen We are currently evaluating supporting migrations to Azure Stack HCI and have this in our backlog. We do not have a definite timeline for this right now.
- KerimHanifWe will have an update on this at Microsoft Ignite conference in October. Currently you can utilize SCVMM or our backup partners’ utility applications you can find this list in here https://learn.microsoft.com/azure-stack/hci/concepts/utility-applications
- I need to do this ASAP, is there any way? MOVERE? Azure migrate tool? I need to migrate VMs from VMware to Azure HCI does ANYBODY knows how to do it?
rahulg1190 any updates?
thanks in advanceyou should consider to use your backup / DR application for the migration.
Some of I know can backup vmWare / Hyper-V VMs and restore them as either VM.
This way it should be possible to backup your VMs and restore them as Hyper-V VMs onto Azure Stack HCI. DR solution examples: Veeam, CommVault.
