How to migrate your VMs to Azure and why | Complete tutorial with new business case in 2023

Move on-premises VMware or Hyper-V workloads to the cloud with Azure Migrate. Discover and assess your VMs, generate a business case for moving Windows and Linux VMs into Azure, and use integrated tools to replicate and migrate your VMs into production running on Azure.

Get Extended Security Updates until October 2026 along with upgrade rights to a supported Windows Server release if you’re migrating Windows Server 2012 VMs to Azure. 

Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, gives a quick overview of how to migrate your VMware virtual machines to Azure.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - Prerequisites
01:12 - VM discovery
03:15 - Discovered servers
04:12 - New business case assessment
05:55 - Create an assessment to migrate VMs into Azure
06:54 - Replicate VMs into Azure
08:35 - Run test migrations
09:14 - Migrate VMs into production
09:47 - Wrap up

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[nickmaximillian]

It looks great and handy. I am wondering how do we integrate this with Infrastructure as a Code practice though? for example, if we are using biceps with pipeline to deploy resources.
Would it be to make sure the replicated VM are in Azure and then export the template? or is there already a tool for it as well?

[tabaniz]

Thanks for wonderful and informative video.
I understand that you require an azure tenant to use azure migration tool, however to assess on-premises servers, do I need a S2S connection??
Please advise.
Cheers

[urbexmooch]

Great video, BUT, you need to pronounce "Azure" correctly.