Azure Migrate Appliance
Hi, We are planning to migrate 100 servers to Azure and are looking for guidance on deploying the Azure Migrate appliance. Due to space limitations on-premises, we do not have room to deploy the appliance locally. Is it possible to deploy the Azure Migrate appliance in an Azure virtual machine (VM) within our existing Azure subscription? if so we would like to deploy the VM, install the Azure Migrate appliance, and then use it to assess, discover, and perform dependency analysis for our on-premises virtual and physical servers. Additionally, we are considering using the "Physical Server" option by downloading the installer script from the Azure Migrate appliance. Can you please confirm if this approach is viable, are there any additional steps or considerations we should be aware of by deploying the appliance in Azure on a VM. Thanks
Azure Migration without VM Shutdown
We're in the process of shutting down the on-premises setup of our company environment running on VMware. We have a DC, SQL server, accounting server and a couple terminal servers used for remote access. I have created the necessary Azure migration assessment and ready to start the replication of the 1st batch of servers. Because we have a legacy custom SQL app, we must maintain standard Windows AD, so I'll be moving our DC virtual machine. Azure AD will not work thus the need to migrate our on-prem DC. My question is replicating and copying our on-prem domain controller from VMware up to Azure but keeping it running following the replication migration up to Azure. I know the normal process of replication is to shutdown the running on-prem VMs once the final delta replication has completed. However, I need to keep my on-prem AD environment running for about another month as I build the Azure environment in parallel. I understand that the two environments will not be in-sync if new domain users are created but this likely will not need to occur with the small size of the company. Basically, does the Azure migration process allow us to keep the migrated VMs running following the final replication sync? I'll do this replication during non-production hours so network activity will be zero. Thanks for any suggestions or input. Ken