ASHCI DS Part 20: Migrating workloads to Azure Stack HCI

[@shawneve]

Exporting and file copying to another host and then importing is not a very efficient migration strategy, especially for large VMs. What tools are available to snapshot and replicate VMs from existing Hyper-V to a new AS HCI cluster, shutdown source VM, copy changes since snapshot and start new VM with downtime in minutes rather than potentially hours. (Something similar to what VMware converter would do) If Microsoft is interested in enabling migration to AS HCI for their customers, they should be providing a tool capable of this.

[@johanneskrings6334]

Unfortunately, Azure Migrate does not offer the desired functionality. A paid tool is available from Zerto -> www.zerto.com/solutions/use-cases/migrations Among other things, this can also be used to migrate VMware VMs to Hyper-V. When migrating from Hyper-V/VMware to Azure Stack HCI, there is only a few minutes of downtime.