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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By : Marcel van den Berg
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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By: Marcel van den Berg

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Summary and a Look into the Near Future
Index

Migrating Azure deployments between data centers and subscriptions


It is very well possible you would like to either move a set of virtual machines to another Azure data center or duplicate a set of virtual machines from a data center and deploy those in a different data center. Think about these scenarios:

  • Deploy to multiple data centers. You have built a set of virtual machines that serve an application in a single Azure data center. For high availability or disaster recovery reasons, you may want to duplicate this deployment to a different Azure data center.

  • Avoid downtime because of maintenance. You have an application running on a single VM in a single Azure data center. You want to avoid the downtime when Microsoft performs maintenance. So the application needs to be deployed in a different Azure data center as well.

  • Moving between subscriptions. Suppose you created virtual machines under a single Azure subscription and want to move those virtual machines to a different Azure subscription...