Azure Storage Migration
- There are two ways of migrating the data into Azure
- Connected Migration
- Offline Migration
- To Support offline migration and to send large amounts of data (terrabytes) into Azure , a quick inexpenisive ways is to use Azure Data Box.
- Azure Databox is a storage device that will be shipped by Azure to your organization, now your organization can copy the data into these Data Boxes and then ship to Azure Regions.
- Azure will import the data from Data Boxes in Azure Storage Accounts
- There are three kinds of Data Box Refer Here
- Data Box
- Data Box Disk
- Data Box Heavy
- Refer Here for official docs
- If your organization is having storage managed by windows server SMB’s or linux using SAMBA, Azure provides Storage Migration Service
- This migration is done using Azure VM Migration and while we migrate, we select the SMB volumes attached Refer Here
- When you want to sync the storage from your on-premise to Azure, Azure provides an integrated storage solution which is Azure StorSimple
- StorSimple Virtual Array
- StorSimple 8000 Series
- StorSimple Data Manager
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Refer Here for migrating the VDI into Azure
Next Steps:
- ARM Templates
Exercises
- Understand Json and Yaml Refer Here
- Ensure all the softwares are installed Refer Here. If you are using windows Refer Here
