Senior Engineer

cgeorgeisaac

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thanks serialband! thats helpful.&nbsp;
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Be prepared for it to take awhile!
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I have a server with 75 TB of storage attached to it &nbsp;50% of this data is attached to physical RDM and 50% is .vmdk. &nbsp;How can I migrate it to the Azure Cloud? &nbsp;The server is running on Windows 2008 R2. We have a VMware 6.7 environment. Also, is there any good tool out to covert &nbsp;RDM to vmdk before this migration.
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I have a server with 75 TB of storage attached to it  50% of this data is attached to physical RDM and 50% is .vmdk.  How can I migrate it to the Azure Cloud?  The server is running on Windows 2008 R2. We have a VMware 6.7 environment. Also, is there any good tool out to covert  RDM to vmdk before this migration.

How to migrate 75 TB server to Azure?

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through datacenters. It provides both platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Cloud Services is a PaaS environment and can be used to create scalable applications and services; there are specific software development kits (SDKs) provided by Microsoft for Python, Java, Node.js and .NET. Azure also has file and storage services, data management, analytics and DNS services.