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Microsoft is set to release guidance on support for Stretched Clustering in late 2024. As of right now Microsoft does not support Stretched Clustering in version 23H2 but in the new version of Windows there is a roadmap to release the feature.
Microsoft recently released Azure Migrate preview feature to migrate from VMware and Hyper V to Azure Stack HCI version 23H2. This blog covers some of the information required to migrate a Windows Virtual Machine from VMWare to Azure Stack HCI 23H2. At this point in private preview version 23H2 is the only supported Azure Stack HCI Operating System. Permissions and requirements to come soon after public preview release in summer of 2024.
There are two appliances required. Private preview link must be used to enable the preview feature and ability to download the zip file required for the source and destination appliances https://aka.ms/HCIMigratePPVMW .
VMware source appliance
Windows Server 2022
8 CPU
80 GB disk
16 GB Memmory
Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Appliance
This appliance must be built on the Azure Stack HCI cluster. It requires the same specifications as the VMWare Server 2022 Azure Migrate appliance.
Windows Preparation
Windows virtual machines you need to configure disk part SAN policy to online all. Here are the commands.
Next steps is to select the virtualization platform and your source VMWare Azure Migrate appliance to setup to migrate the VMWare Windows Server to Azure Stack HCI 23H2.
Select the correct subscription and resource group the cluster resides in. Then select the correct Azure Stack HCI 23H2 Cluster.
Next select the target Azure Migrate Appliance.
Next select the Virtual Machine and click next.
Next select the staged storage account or create a new cache storage account. Then select the target resource group, logical network and storage path.
Next select the Operating System Disk and click next.
Next select the Disks if needed and confirm then click next.
Finally click replicate to start replication.
Now that the Virtual Machine is replicated we can migrate the server.
The migration has been complete.
After successful migration of the Virtual Machine it will show up in Azure Arc inside the Azure Stack HCI Cluster.
Stay tune for additional details around migrating from Hyper V and VMWare to Azure Stack HCI 23H2.