Migrate

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Azure Migrate is a service that helps organizations inventory, assess, and migrate VMs and SQL Server environments to Azure. The service also provides tools to migrate ASP.NET applications and Java Web apps to containers deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure App Service. Migrate provides direct access to migration tools from Microsoft and ISVs and supports Hyper-V and VMware VMs as well as physical servers and VMs on services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Product: Azure Migrate

Near Term (2025-2026)

Migrate is implementing an updated agent-based migration stack, in preview, for VMware and physical servers called the “simplified experience.” The simplified experience will replace the current “classic experience.” It supports newer Linux distributions for migration and is intended to provide a more efficient migration with improved performance and reliability. Milestones to adoption include the following:

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