In this section, we are going to replicate the VMs to Azure Site Recovery. To do so, follow these steps:
For this part of the demonstration, you should have a resource group with a storage account, VNet, and subnet created in the same region as the target region of the discovery, which we selected in the Prepare Hyper-V host discovery step in the previous section. In this demonstration, this is the West US region.
- Open the Azure Migrate project from the Azure portal. Then, under Migration goals, click Servers | Azure Migrate: Server Migration and then click Replicate:
Azure Migrate: Server Migration
- In the Replicate blade, add the following values:
- Are your machines virtualized? Yes, with Hyper-V.
- Then, click Next: Virtual Machines. Add the following values to the Virtual machines blade:
- Import migration settings from an Azure Migrate assessment?: Yes, apply migration settings from an Azure Migrate assessment.
- Select the group that we created earlier, as well as the assessment.
- Select the VMs that you want to migrate:
Selecting the assessment as input
- Click Next: target settings.
- In Target settings, the target region that you'll migrate to will be automatically selected. Select the subscription, the resource group, the storage account, and the virtual network and subnet that the Azure VMs will reside in after migration. You can also select whether you want to use the Azure hybrid benefit here:
Target settings
- Click Next: Compute.
- In Compute, review the VM name, size, OS disk type, and availability set:
- VM size: If the assessment recommendations are used, the VM drop-down will contain the recommended size. Otherwise, Azure Migrate picks a size based on the closest match in the Azure subscription. You can also pick a size manually.
- OS type: Pick the OS type. You can choose between Windows or Linux.
- OS disk: Specify the OS (boot) disk for the VM.
- Availability set: If the VM should be in an Azure availability set after migration, specify the set. The set must be in the target resource group you specify for the migration:
Compute settings
- Click Next: Disks.
- In Disks, specify whether the VM disks should be replicated to Azure and select the disk type (standard SSD/HDD or premium-managed disks) in Azure:
Selecting the required disks
- Then, click Next: Review + start replication.
- Click Replicate.
- When the replication process has finished, you will see an overview of the replication VMs. Under Migration goals | Servers | Azure Migrate: Server Migration | Replicating server, you will see a list of all the replicated VMs and whether they have been replicated successfully. You can also view the health of the replication:
Replication overview
It can take a while before the machines are fully replicated.
Now that we have replicated the VMs to Azure Site Recovery, we need to migrate them to Azure.