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Venelin Ustabashiev
Jun 26, 2024Copper Contributor
Azure VMs migration from one tenant to another
Hi Community, I have a task to move/migrate Azure VMs from subscription on one Azure tenant to subscription on another Azure tenant. Moving the subscription is not an option. I think I can treat the...
Matthias-Braun
Jun 26, 2024Brass Contributor
I would actually stick with Azure Migrate as a solution. It gives you everything you need:
- Migration planning.
- Test migration, if necessary.
- Final migration with no data loss.
- Another alternative would be to use Azure Backup to take a snapshot of the machines, copy it to the other tenant's backup vault, and then restore it. Similar principle to Azure Migrate, except that the individual steps have to be carried out yourself.
- One manual step would be to copy the disks of the servers to the new tenant and "hang" them in the new VM. Works, but I wouldn't recommend it from experience 😉
Best regards
Matthias