I have used Azure backup service to backup single laptop/desktop over the WAN. However what if I have 100 laptop to be backed-up.
Have someone used Azure backup service to protect multiple laptop and desktops?
there are a couple of components that come with Azure backup, each of them has a specific use case as below:
1- Azure Backup (MARS) agent
Back up files and folders on physical or virtual Windows OS (VMs can be on-premises or in Azure)
No separate backup server required.
2- System Center DPM
Application-aware snapshots (VSS)
Full flexibility for when to take backups
Recovery granularity (all)
Can use Recovery Services vault
Linux support on Hyper-V and VMware VMs
Back up and restore VMware VMs using DPM 2012 R2
3- Azure Backup Server
App aware snapshots (VSS)
Full flexibility for when to take backups
Recovery granularity (all)
Can use Recovery Services vault
Linux support on Hyper-V and VMware VMs
Back up and restore VMware VMs
Does not require a System Center license
4-Azure IaaS VM Backup
Native backups for Windows/Linux
No specific agent installation required
Fabric-level backup with no backup infrastructure needed
For full info regarding Which Azure Backup components should I use?: checkout the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-introduction-to-azure-backup
as suggested by #Vikranth S, MARS would be your best option for the use case you've described.
-Adam
There are two azure backup products which can be used to backup on-premises workloads.
Using Microsoft Azure Recovery services agent (MARS)
2.Using Microsoft Azure Backup server (MABS)
With MARS agent you can protect Files & Folders and System State of only Windows clients and server operating system, but you have to manually register each and every server with recovery services vault.
With MABs you can protect entire (Windows and Linux) Machines, if you register one server with recovery services vault, you can protect all other Machines are in same network by using that server. With MABS you can only protect Server operating system starting from Win 2008 R2. Please let me know if you have any other queries
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I have a bunch of users in Azure AD tenant. There is no on premise server or AD.
I have discovered one of the PC hosts a line of business application (accounting software MYOB) that I would like to migrate to the cloud (Azure).
What is the easiest way to do this?
I had a look at this article - is this the way?
The best way to migrate business application [Onprem] to Azure cloud via "Azure Migration - Foundation for your Azure Infrastructure"
as part of setps we need to configure below
Create an Azure Infrastructure foundation for VM
Create a Virtual Machine in Azure and configure for application
Import the Website to the Azure Virtual machine.
Configure NSGs.
I have found one reference tutorial with step by step process from whizlabs.
The way I did it in the end, which was simple and secure was to create a Azure Virtual Desktop (Windows 10) AVD.
I then published this AVD to the users that needed it and set it to shutdown each night at 6PM to keep costs down.
Installed the application to a extra disk mounted in the AVD.
We have Windows Server 2016 Azure Virtual Machines using managed disks.
I am trying to create an Azure Data Factory pipeline that will let me copy certain files from a folder on the hard drives of those VMs, to our Azure SQL Server. I was quite surprised to see no ADF connectors available for Azure VMs; then I checked Logic Apps - same issue, no available connectors for connecting to Azure VM's there either.
Then I did some Googling to find out how, in general, you can access an Azure VM file structure from outside (without using Remote Desktop) and was even more surprised to see that there isn't any info out there about this (not even that it can't be done).
Is it possible for me to access the file system of my Windows Server 2016 Azure VM without using Remote Desktop? The VM's are running Managed Disks if that makes any difference.
You can either ssh your_vm_ip and then use rsync command to download or upload files.
rsync -au --progress your_user_name#ip.ip.ip.ip:/remote_dir/remote_dir/ /local_dir/local_dir/
Otherwise you can install Dropbox in the VM and your local computer, transfering small files in the shared Dropbox folder is very fast..
Here are some instruction slides on the Azure storage system and their Storage Explorer App.
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 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.
I have an application in centos VM running in amazon EC2 and now I need to migrate it to windows azure.
Is there a way to copy a snapshot to azure??
I wish to answer it step by step, but I found a link that is more than good & have almost details required to migrate an existing instance from Amazon EC2 to Windows Azure with video. The link is Guided Hands-on Lab: Migrate VMs to Windows Azure from Amazon AWS [ 20 Key Cloud Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ]
I hope it will help.
Well this is only possible if you are running Windows Server on your EC2 instance by following this link:
https://convective.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/migrating-a-vm-from-ec2-to-azure-at-300-mbps/
If you're running linux, currently there's no simple tool that does it, but you can go to your Azure account and follow these steps:
1- Mimic your architecture of servers on your Azure account by keeping eyes on number of VMs, Network, Storages, and other services if found.
2- Make the correct setup on those servers (configure your web server, db server, etc..)
3- Zip all of your data files found on EC2 (/var/www/Web_Folder) and use mysqldump to backup your database as well.
4- Create a windows server VM on Azure that you can connect to Remotely (Profit from the cloud internet speed) and use filezilla to download your zipped files from EC2 and then upload them back to newly created VMs on Azure. Upload your db backup file there as well.
5- Create a new database on your Azure VMs with the same old name, give user access, exit mysql and then restore your db backup file that you uploaded using: mysql -u root -p DB_Name
Just an update, Now you can accomplish this task using Azure Site Recovery this is a super easy task. In site recovery once you do failover all the virtual machines will automatically gets created which means with minimal or no downtime the migration can be performed https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/site-recovery-migrate-aws-to-azure/