Migrate on-premises machines to Azure
This article describes options for migrating on-premises machines to Azure.
Migrate with Site Recovery
Site Recovery should be used for disaster recovery only, and not migration.
If you're already using Azure Site Recovery, and you want to continue using it for migration, follow the same steps that you use for disaster recovery.
- VMware VMs: Prepare Azure and VMware, start replicating machines, check that everything's working, and run a failover.
- Hyper-V VMs: Prepare Azure and Hyper-V, start replicating machines, check that everything's working, and run a failover.
- Physical servers: Follow the walkthrough to prepare Azure, prepare machines for disaster recovery, and set up replication.
Note
When you run a failover for disaster recovery, as a last step you commit the failover. When you migrate on-premises machines, the Commit option isn't relevant. Instead, you select the Complete Migration option.