Azure Migrate: Server Migration allows you to migrate both physical and virtual machines from either VMware and Hyper-V platforms on premise into Azure. There are three parts to this; creating a migrate project in Azure, creating an Azure Site Recovery (ASR) host on site to…
Before Azure Backup supported Windows Server 2008 guests early March 2020, not to be confused with 2008 R2 SP1, you couldn’t create an application consistent backup using the Recovery Services vault (RSV); essentially no live backups. Thankfully this isn’t a problem for 2008 guests anymore,…
When installing Windows, the required features, technical requirements and roles needed will define which edition to choose, much like deciding which SQL Server instance type to install. There are significant licensing costs between Standard and Datacenter. Since Windows Server 2016 and onwards, there are minor…
More often than not there wouldn't need to be a need to convert a Gen2 VM down to a Gen1 VM. The exceptions to this would be downgrading a version of Hyper-V from Windows Server 2012 to 2008 R2; the chances of this are quite…
While there are many ways to migrate Hyper-V guests using Azure Migrate: Server Migration and Azure Site Recovery Provider, sometimes you might want to simply create an Azure VM using an existing VHD that you have uploaded to an Azure Storage account. If you have an existing managed…