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Workload Migration Approach and Tool Guidance
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• ASR – Azure Site Recovery with Hyper-V Replica
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Supported & No Cost – Quick and easy to
download, use and start conversions of
VMware VMs
Convert to 2012 R2 – Converts and
deploys virtual machines or virtual disks
from VMware hosts to Hyper-V hosts
including Hyper-V on Windows Server
2012 R2
Scriptable – PowerShell enabled for
performing virtual machine and disk
conversions that integrates well with
data center automation workflows
OS Support – Supports Windows
Server 2008 R2 and above & Windows
7 and above
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Supported Source & Destination Hosts
Microsoft
Azure
vSphere
vSphere
vSphere 5.5
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Supported Guest Operating Systems
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter
Converting to Microsoft Azure
VMware -> Microsoft Azure
MVMC performs virtual machine conversions to
VHDs and uploads the disks to Microsoft Azure
Blob Storage.
Pre-Requisites
Added a management certificate for Microsoft
Azure that can be used for authentication with your
subscription ID on Microsoft Azure.
You have a storage account to upload and store the
converted VHDs in Microsoft Azure.
To convert and upload to Microsoft Azure, you have
to install Windows PowerShell Runtime 3.0 on the
machine on which MVMC is running.
See documentation for guidance.
Migration Automation Toolkit
Accelerates and scales the MVMC through simple, extensible PowerShell automation
Migration Automation Toolkit
Free solution to automate & scale MVMC
Migration Automation Toolkit for MVMC
Series of PowerShell scripts that wrapper MVMC
with automation to perform multiple conversions
simultaneously
Free to download, edit and customize
Uses free SQL Server Express (or other SQL Server
editions) to store information about the conversion
process
Supports multiple simultaneous conversions per
MVMC machine
Scales out across ‘Helper Nodes’ – multiple
machines running MVMC and scripts all
coordinated from central node
More helper nodes = more conversions
simultaneously.
Helper machines
Physical/Virtual OS
with mvmc.exe
4. Scale
3. Convert
mvmc.exe
vSphere
1. Collect
Physical/Virtual OS
with SQL Express
Hyper-V
2. Order
Control machine
User ordered list
NetApp: Project Shift
Rapid Virtual Machine Conversion – Powered by the Array
Data ONTAP, FlexClone & WAFL
Process involves cloning the data blobs from one
format to another, writing any unique differences as
needed.
For VMware to Hyper-V, cloned from the flat VMDK
into a VHD/VHDX, writing any headers and
metadata as needed.
Take a VMDK on an NFS data store and shift it to a
VHD/VHDX in seconds.
Supports conversion to Windows Server 2012 R2
Hyper-V hosts, including to VHDX files
Supports Windows Server 2003 through to
Windows Server 2012 R2, along with RedHat
Only writing the difference in the file format not the
contents of the virtual disk itself.
Requires a NetApp storage device that is running
Data ONTAP 8.2 or later, running in Cluster mode*
Conversion process
NFS
VMware
1.
SMB
NetApp
FAS2240
Conversion
SQL Express
2.
Hyper-V
Collect data
Storage vMotion to NetApp
(no downtime)
3. Snapshot VM (backup)
4. Flex-Clone VMDK(s)
5. Collect network info of VM
6. Remove VMware Tools
7. Shutdown VM
8. Convert VMDK to VHDx
(“SHIFT”)
9. Configure networking/reboot
10. Storage LiveMigrate to
Hyper-V storage pool
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MA migrates Windows Physical, Virtual and
AWS workloads into Azure, irrespective of
underlying hardware and storage
MA provides a web based portal with 3 levels of
tenancy for self-service and SI partner driven
migrations
MA performs guest level application discovery
and enforces consistency across all VMs in a
multi-tier application
MA performs end-to-end Recovery
Orchestration such as network and endpoint
adaptation and recovery sequencing
Microsoft Migration Accelerator: Pre-Requisites
Sign-Up
• Preview
announced via
Azure
homepage,
Blogs
• Accept Preview
Terms on
landing page
• Request for MA
Portal Sign-Up,
bits &
documentation
access
Subscribe
• Get an Azure
Subscription
• Bandwidth
• S2S VPN or
NAT IP for
Cloud Gateway
• Sign-up
response e-mail
with follow up
instructions
Provision
• Download
software and
set up 2
Management
VMs in Azure
Subscription
• Download S/W
and set up 1
Management
VM onpremises
• Physical, Virtual, AWS
• Application Discovery
(SharePoint)
• Windows 2008 R2 and
above
Discover
Protect
• Select Azure
Subscription
• Replication Settings
• Map Storage Account
• Select Servers and
Recovery Order
• VM and Network
Settings
• Specify End Points
Cut-over
VMware
Compute
Physical
Storage
Other
Networks
Master Config.
Target Server
MA
Multi-tenant
Portal
VMware
Physical
Other
Master Config.
Target Server
Microsoft Azure
1. With Test Failovers (Disaster Recover (DR) Drills) and Network
Mapping, you can test your entire application and network
configuration without impacting your production workload.
2. Test Failover allow you to scale your development and testing
environments on-demand and ensures that you can validate your
application’s functionality and its performance in Azure before making
the final move.
3. With Recovery Plans that group virtual machines from multi-tiered
applications into one consolidated failover unit, migrating to Azure is
as simple as a click and benefits from the optimizations that we help
to reduce your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
4. Recovery Plans also support Planned Failovers so that your onpremises workloads will be gracefully shutdown before getting failed
over to Azure. At that point you can Disable Protection on the virtual
machines and leave them running in Microsoft Azure.
Source
Destination
Solution
Automation
Downtime
Guest Server OS Support
VMware
Hyper-V
MVMC
MAT4MVMC
High (several hours)
VMware
Hyper-V
SHIFT
MAT4SHIFT
Medium (10 to 15
minutes)
Windows 2008 R2 SP1+
Linux
Windows (Linux untested,
but may work)
VMware
Azure IaaS
MVMC
PowerShell
High (several hours)
VMware
Azure IaaS
MA
Built-In
Low (under 5
minutes)
Hyper-V
Azure IaaS
ASR
PowerShell
Low (under 5
minutes)
Hyper-V
Azure IaaS
MA
Built-In
Low (under 5
minutes)
Physical Server
Hyper-V
MVMC
PowerShell
Physical Server
Azure IaaS
MA
Amazon Web
Services
Azure IaaS
MA
Versions of Windows Server
and Linux supported in
Azure
Versions of Windows Server
and Linux supported in
Azure
Limitations
Cost
Support
Requires a NetApp
appliance
Software is a no cost
download
Software is a no cost
download
TechNet forum & e-mail
Supported by CSS
NetApp
Software is a no cost
download
TechNet forum & e-mail
Supported by CSS
No cost during preview
period.
MSDN forum while in
Preview.
ASR subscription
required during
migration
No cost during preview
period.
Same as Product Support
May be limited to
migrating certain
workloads
Versions of Windows Server
and Linux supported in
Azure
Versions of Windows Server
and Linux supported in
Azure
May be limited to
migrating certain
workloads
Medium (10 to 15
minutes)
Windows 2008 R2 SP1+
No Linux P2V
Software is a no cost
download
TechNet forum & e-mail
Supported by CSS
Built-In
Low (under 5
minutes)
Versions of Windows Server
and Linux supported in
Azure
May be limited to
migrating certain
workloads
No cost during preview
period.
MSDN forum while in
Preview.
Built-In
Low (under 5
minutes)
Versions of Windows Server
and Linux supported in
Azure
May be limited to
migrating certain
workloads
No cost during preview
period.
MSDN forum while in
Preview.
MSDN forum while in
Preview.