93. Understanding migration of IIS, Hyper-V, RDS, DHCP, and print services Let’s get into the concepts now of migration of IIS, Hyper-V, RDS, DHCP and print servers. We’ll start with the fact that Windows Server does have what is known as the Windows Server migration tools. Now, ultimately our goal here is that we are looking to move services from one server to another and this can happen in various circumstances. One circumstance could be we just want to get certain services off […]
90. Creating an assessment using Azure Migration I now want to look at how we can create an assessment of our on-premises virtual machine into Azure. So, what is the idea of an assessment? Well, the idea is that if I am planning on moving a virtual machine from my on-premises environment into the cloud, I want to assess cost and all of that stuff. So, the purpose of an assessment is to help me figure that out. If I had to go […]
88. Installing an Azure Migration appliance virtual machine And I want to look at migrating a server into Azure using Azure Migrate now. This is a bit tricky because in this case I’m running Hyper-V on a Windows client operating system in my virtual machines are running server. So, what I actually need to do is I need to set up a server inside of a server, in other words, a nested server. I’ve already enabled nested virtualization the DC here and I’ve […]
86. Overview of Azure Migration As with many, many other past experiences with Microsoft, you’ll probably find that Microsoft gives us many different ways to perform actions and they come out with a solution. And then just a couple of years down the road, they come out with another solution for that same thing. And then a couple of years down the road, they come out with another one. And doing migrations is no different. All right. Probably one of the newer ways […]
83. Transfer and Migrate data to Azure file shares I want to get into the concepts now of getting information from the on-premises environment into the cloud. You might be doing this for backup purposes, but what I want to focus on is also making data available. So, maybe, we have data that has been, maybe, shared out on-premises, but we’re wanting to make that data available in the cloud. All right. Now, the first thing we’re going to need is. We’re going […]
81. Configuring your Hyper-V host with nested virtualization to support replication It’s now time for us to learn about installing Hyper-V on a Windows server. Now, in my little lab environment, I’ve actually got a client machine that is running Hyper-V, which you can have Windows 10, you could have Windows 11 that you’ve installed Hyper-V on. Keep in mind, I don’t provide any support for VirtualBox or any of that. You, if you want to use VirtualBox to set some of this […]
77. Cleaning up to save Azure credit I am going to clean up some of my Azure resources now. So, I’m actually going to go to Storage Count demo and I am going to tell it to delete this resource group and it is going to delete everything in it That includes the virtual machines and everything. And I’m going to do this to kind of save some of my Azure credit and all that. So, we’re just going to say delete. All […]
74. Understanding Azure Site Recovery I’d like to now go over the concept of Azure site recovery. So, when you create a recovery services vault, one of the options that you’ll have available to you is to utilize something called Azure Site Recovery. Now, this is all about adopting what’s called a BCDR, which stands for business, continuity and disaster recovery. All right. And the game plan here is to plan for a scenario where an entire location can go down and you […]
