I've got a client who wants to save some money by moving their Azure VMs over to their Hyper-V cluster. These VMs serve as app servers that are accessible to the public, so it's really important that we minimize any downtime during this process.
From what I've gathered, there isn't a straightforward way to replicate Azure VMs to Hyper-V. My initial thought was to deallocate the VM, export its disk, then import that disk into Hyper-V. They have good enough network bandwidth to download the disks overnight, which could work.
Has anyone experienced this? Is there a better or more efficient approach to take? I know it won't be incredibly complicated, but I want to make sure that we're accurately scoping and quoting costs. Ideally, if we can find a way to replicate rather than doing a full backup and restore, that would be the best case. Thanks for any insights!
1 Answer
If you can manage the networking, using Veeam for backup and restore would be a great solution. Incremental backups alongside Instant VM recovery can help keep downtime to a minimum. Alternatively, you could create a new VM and migrate the app directly, which might simplify things too.
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