I have a requirement of Windows version 1809/build 17763 VM on azure for some task. I choked and was not able to find the VM on azure. How can I setup windows VM with above version/build
You can create a VHD with Windows OS version you need locally then upload this VHD to Azure and use this VHD to create a managed image so that you can create VMs by this managed image.
For detailed steps see this official doc.
Btw, I noticed that there is a VM image based on windows server 1809, you can find it while creating VMs => see all images:
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I am trying to migrate Linux VM running on AWS to Azure but it has Kernel version (4.4.0-1088-AWS) which is not supported with Azure.
I tried to use Azure Site Recovery to replicate the Virtual machine directly to Azure but the mobility service agent is not installing there due to Kernel version not being supported.
Is there any way to migrate those VMs or Is there any way to clone the same VMs to Azure by creating a new instance and moving data and configuration.
Current OS Version is Ubuntu 14.04
You can create new instance as per requirement Ubuntu version and then copy manually data
You can treat the Linux VM as physical and migrate to Azure using Azure migrate or Azure Site Recovery.
For more details, see a similar discussion on the MSDN forum - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e542831d-a506-495f-8d4b-61e093c5345a/migrate-from-aws-to-azure?forum=hypervrecovmgr
We have a requirement to Migrate EC2 instance of AWS to Azure as VM, have been trying to implement the same from this source,
unable to complete the process. Tried and stuck on Protection Group.
I'm looking in these other links
Migrating a VM from EC2 to Azure at 300 Mbps For this I'm able to create VM in Classis portal but unable connect to it only port 80 is active all other ports are not working
Migrate virtual machines in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-vmware-to-azure
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ on trying this I'm getting this unresolved EC2 API export to S3 ACL issue
Can anyone suggest me a workflow on how to implement this?
I achieved this by downloading AWS EC2 VHD to an Hyper-V enabled machine on-premises.
Following are the steps.
Create VM from VHD and Remove AWS related software.
Open Hyper-V manager and create VM from the downloaded VHD.
Log in to the VM and uninstalled AWS related services from control panel (AWS Drivers, EC2configService, AWS Tools for Windows, AWS SSM Agent)
All these changes were affected on the VHD.
Upload the converted VHD to Azure Storage (using the Azure PowerShell cmdlets)
Create av Azure VM-Image from that VHD in Classic Azure Portal
Create an Azure VM using the new Image.
Created a classic VM in Azure portal.
For creating a VM under Resource manager, created VHD of newly migrated VM and using that created a new VM in azure portal.
Mention any workflow other than this.
There are multiple ways to migrate machines.
Azure Migrate: Server Migration is one tool that lets you do that and is the recommended way to rehost x86 machines to Azure. You can treat the EC2 instance (AWS VM) as though it were a Physical machine and migrate it to Azure as long as the Operating System on the machine is supported by the Physical Server Migration flow (also check the kernel version to ensure it is supported) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-migrate-physical-virtual-machines
That being said, EC2 VMs may have some changes that you’ll need to make before migrating them, or it may cause issues once in Azure. For example if they are using cloudinit for VM provisioning, you may want to disable cloudinit on the VM before replicating it because the provisioning steps performed by cloudinit on the VM maybe AWS specific and wont be valid after the migration to Azure.
The other thing to note is if the VM is a PV VM (para-virtualized) and not a HVM VM you may not be able to run it as is because paravirtualized VMs use a custom boot sequence in AWS (you may be able to get over this challenge by installing GRUB 2 on the VM and building grub)
The recommendation, if you are using this approach, is to always perform a test migration first to test the process.
I know that bitnami has moved all his images to the Azure Marketplace, but there was others VM on vmdepot. Now there is no simple way to share virtual machines on Azure.
As you mentioned, Microsoft Azure decide to removed their old VM Depot Marketplace and all the Bitnami Images have been moved to their new Marketplace:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/.
You can create your a virtual machine image for the Azure Marketplace and publish it following the guide below:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/marketplace-publishing-vm-image-creation/
I have a VM running in Azure. Is it possible to download the VHD from blob storage and use it to create/launch a VM on my local machine using hypervisor?
If this is possible, do you believe Windows 2012 server licensing could be an issue?
Yes, from purely technical perspective it should work locally once VHD is downloaded. If VHD fails to mount locally, make a local copy of a downloaded VHD file and then mount that resulting copy.
Regarding your licensing question, according to this page: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/licensing-faq/
Can I move Windows Server 2012 licenses and images between Hyper-V and Azure? Windows Server licenses are not eligible for License
Mobility through Software Assurance. The license to run Windows Server
in the Azure environment is included in the per-minute cost of your
Windows Virtual Machine. Licenses for use of Windows Server
on-premises (whether in a VHD or otherwise) must be obtained
separately through volume licensing.
In other words, the Windows license cost is included in the Azure per-minute cost you pay. If you download the VHD and use it in house, you must have a license.
Is it possible to download a vhd (or vhdx) image of Windows Azure Cloud Service and run it locally on my computer in Hyper-V?
How to do that?
Thanks
For Cloud Services (web/worker roles), you cannot download a vhd. Remember that the running Windows image is created with a baseline image, then your deployment package is attached and your code is executed. If you spin up another instance, it results in the same starting point. There's no way to take the running machine and capture a vhd. VHD-based operation is all part of Virtual Machines. And with those, you can download the vhd.