It is likely that Microsoft customers using Hyper-V and System Center on-premises will consider Microsoft Azure as their preferred cloud platform for hybrid cloud. Microsoft does a lot of promotion of its Cloud OS vision and makes sure System Center integrates nicely with Azure.

While a seamless experience for management of both on- and off-premises might be very obvious, there are some caveats. The caveats are in the missing features in Azure on virtual machine management compared to what Hyper-V has to offer.

Despite Microsoft Azure running Hyper-V on the nodes, there are quite some differences in management features between on-premises and Microsoft Azure. This is partly caused by the mixture of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V deployed in Azure datacenters. The exact percentage of 2008 versus 2012 Hyper-V is not made public by Microsoft.

So let's have a look of what Azure is missing at the moment (January 2015) for...