You’re ready to migrate your on-premises workloads to Azure. If you haven’t yet added the Azure Migrate Server Migration tool to the Azure Migrate project, you can do so now. The tool supports agentless migration of Windows and Linux VMs, which is appropriate as agentless migration is a requirement for your migration pilot.
Azure Migrate: Server Migration runs a lightweight Hyper-V VM appliance that discovers VMs and sends VM metadata and performance information to the tool. You’ve already set up the appliance during the discovery and assessment phase.
The Azure Migrate Server Migration service uses Azure Site Recovery as the underlying migration engine.
In this unit, you’ll look at how to deploy the Azure Site Recovery Provider on your Hyper-V host.
Hyper-V replication components
Before migrating your VMs, you’ll set up your Hyper-V host with the components it needs to manage replication of your VMs and data. With agentless migration, you install components on the Hyper-V host only. You don’t need to install anything on the Hyper-V VMs.
The Microsoft Azure Site Recovery provider orchestrates replication for Hyper-V VMs. The provider also installs the Microsoft Azure Recovery Service agent which handles data replication. Data is uploaded to a storage account that you created as part of preparing your on-premises workloads for migration.
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