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Cristian Zaragoza Gomez
Nov 16, 2016Copper Contributor
Moving Hyper-V VMs 2nd Generation to Azure
Hi, I'm trying to migrate an on-premise SharePoint 2013 Farm built with Hyper-V VMs to Azure ARM. The farm was built using Hyper-V VMs of 2nd generation. After a lot of problems and research, I'v...
Stephane Budo
Dec 15, 2016Iron Contributor
Hi Cristian,
You are correct, Generation 2 VM's are currently not supported in Azure.
That being said, you could use Azure Site Recovery to migrate your workloads across as Gen 2 VMs are fully supported there.
ASR will do the migration/conversation for you and is free for the first 30 days of use, so is actively promoted by Microsoft as migration tool.
Cheers,
Stephane