making Hyper-V onsite VMs ready for Azure?
Hi all.
Been bouncing around Google for an hour or so hoping to pick up a definitive guide that will assist me with decision making on building on-premise HyperV VMs but doing so, so that they are cloud ready should the boss ever decide to push them to azure. So I remember hearing that Azure for example doesn't support dynamic disk only basic. It's that sort of thing, a list of do and don'ts if you like. We are doing a lot P2V (to hyperV) and if I can do anything to make them ready for Azure when it happens it would help me out in the long term. Anyone know of a magic link to a set of Azure VM requirements?
Many thanks for looking.
Been bouncing around Google for an hour or so hoping to pick up a definitive guide that will assist me with decision making on building on-premise HyperV VMs but doing so, so that they are cloud ready should the boss ever decide to push them to azure. So I remember hearing that Azure for example doesn't support dynamic disk only basic. It's that sort of thing, a list of do and don'ts if you like. We are doing a lot P2V (to hyperV) and if I can do anything to make them ready for Azure when it happens it would help me out in the long term. Anyone know of a magic link to a set of Azure VM requirements?
Many thanks for looking.
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Your Hyper-V VMs are already Azure Ready!
from my EE Article
"Specify the Windows Azure connections details – enter your Windows Azure Subscription ID and Management Certificate Thumbprint details. These are available from the Windows Azure SETTINGS section."
from my EE Article
"Specify the Windows Azure connections details – enter your Windows Azure Subscription ID and Management Certificate Thumbprint details. These are available from the Windows Azure SETTINGS section."
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Oh I see so these are by way of conforming you have permission to upload to Azure. So I guess if you have a VM with 32GB RAM and 8 cores this would be expensive in Azure and so resource sizing is paramount then? And if you have a VM with all the apps and data on the same partition as the operating system this wouldn't be a good candidate because Azure vms have separate data disks?
It depends for how long you run it....and based on local resources you have available!
e.g. one of our clients, local infrastructure cannot support the surge of online flash sales they have yearly, and the website and ecommerce platform dies!
they have decided they do not want to pay for expensive upgrades just for 2 times a year. So for a limited period of time twice a year we upload to Azure, they have far more resources available scale up!
if you have all apps and data on same disk it does make it easier.
e.g. one of our clients, local infrastructure cannot support the surge of online flash sales they have yearly, and the website and ecommerce platform dies!
they have decided they do not want to pay for expensive upgrades just for 2 times a year. So for a limited period of time twice a year we upload to Azure, they have far more resources available scale up!
if you have all apps and data on same disk it does make it easier.
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Hi Andy. I know I'm going off subject a little but I have looked at my Azure portal. I can't see reference to Certificate Thumbprint. Couldn't possibly help me find could you please?
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Hi Andy. I found the answer to the certificate for purpose of conversion to Azure. Thank you buddy.
no problems have fun with Azure.
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2 things. How is the certificate thumbprint acquired exactly? And does the migration work the same for VHDX files?
ps. if you can let me have any other links to azure articles you have written I'd be great full
Thank you.