Azure Migrate Step-by-Step Demo: Migrating your VMs from VMware to Azure Local

Azure Migrate (preview) is a new tool to migrate VMs from VMware to Azure Local. It provides agent-less replication & workload configuration, with no workload impact during replication & minimal cutover time, while all data stays on-premises.

DataON’s Jake Thomas takes us on a step-by-step demo on how to move VMware VMs to Azure Local with Azure Migrate.

00:04 – Introduction to Azure Migrate: Migrating VMs from VMware to Azure Local

00:41 – Setting up Azure Local instance with solution provider’s help

01:18 – Creating a new Azure Migrate project and resource group

02:12 – Deploying migration appliances and starting discovery

06:30 – Adding vCenter credentials and performing VM discovery

09:13 – Configuring replication jobs and selecting target resources

16:44 – Finalizing replication and selecting VMs to migrate

18:15 – Performing migration, powering on VMs in Azure Local

19:10 – Post-migration results: VMs are up and running