Firstly let’s remind ourselves what Azure migrate is.
What is it?
Azure Migrate is a Microsoft service that helps small, medium or big companies assess their on-premises environment and plan for moving all or some of it into the cloud.
Since its inception back in July 2019 this service has been used by numerous companies to move their on-premises workloads to the cloud.
As with other Azure resources/features it is regularly updated and I thought I would use this blog as an opportunity to discuss the latest updates since the start of 2022.
February 2022
Azure Migrate now supported in the Azure China region, other unsupported Azure regions to follow.
Now able to migrate Windows and Linux Hyper-V virtual machines with large data disks (up to 32 TB in size – This has evolved since 2019 when the disk size limit was 2TB for Generation 1 VMs and 4TB for Generation 2 VMs.
Public Preview only for at scale software inventory and agentless dependency analysis for Hyper-V VMs and bare metal server or servers running on other clouds such as AWS, GCP, etc.
March 2022
Use of private links over a private network to allow agentless VMware VM discovery, assessments and migrations.
Ability to select subnets for each Network Interface card (NIC) on a replicating machine in the VMware agentless migration scenario.
May 2022
There have been updates to the Azure SQL assessment tool to identify the ideal migration target for your SQL deployments across SQL MI, SQL Server and SQL DB.
There has also been an upgrade to support Storage vMotion during replication for any agentless VMware VM migrations.
June 2022
Latest update allows user to perform at-scale agentless migration of ASP.Net web applications running on any IIS web servers which are hosted on a Windows OS in a VMware environment.
To keep up to date with the latest releases for Azure Migrate I found the following link useful:
What’s new in Azure Migrate – Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs
