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What are the pros & cons of Storage Migration Services?
Migration is 1-to -1. If you have 60 file servers to replace, SMS needs 60 file servers to migrate them to. They can be WS2016 or WS2012 R2, but if you use older operating systems:
- They will migrate much slower because they don't have the SMS proxy service included in WS2019
- You will have to migrate them again much sooner than if you chose WS2019, which has almost 10 years of support left. Your WS2012 R2 servers are already out of mainstream support, for instance, and they will cease to be supported at all in 2023
I'm not talking about Azure here, just SMS. If you are just wanting to send data to Azure that users don't directly access again via a file server, you should look Azure Databox options.
Ned Pyle | Principal Program Manager, MS | @nerdpyle
Migration is 1-to -1. If you have 60 file servers to replace, SMS needs 60 file servers to migrate them to. They can be WS2016 or WS2012 R2, but if you use older operating systems:
- They will migrate much slower because they don't have the SMS proxy service included in WS2019
- You will have to migrate them again much sooner than if you chose WS2019, which has almost 10 years of support left. Your WS2012 R2 servers are already out of mainstream support, for instance, and they will cease to be supported at all in 2023
I'm not talking about Azure here, just SMS. If you are just wanting to send data to Azure that users don't directly access again via a file server, you should look Azure Databox options.
Ned Pyle | Principal Program Manager, MS | @nerdpyle
