I have a new install of Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role setup and a couple VMs running along fat, dumb, and happy. I want to play with Azure hosting for VMs for a couple of stand-alone boxes. Is there anything special that I need to wire up to be able to live-migrate to Azure? I have the 90-day Azure trial account right now. Any special plumbing required? I have not found a lot of documentation about this yet. Everything I found points to manually copying the VHDs via command line and the Azure 2012 SDK.
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Hmmm... I'm pretty sure that LiveMigration requires shared storage so unless your local Hyper-V server is sharing the same storage device with your Azure trial I don't see how this would be possible... but I'm curious to see what answers are illicited.– joeqwertyNov 17, 2012 at 21:37
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1I thought that was Microsoft's Big new Thing (tm) with being able to live-migrate without shared storage as long as the Hyper-V host was Server 2012. In one of the Server 2012 Launch videos they showed migration to Azure but never touched on the plumbing to make it work.– TopHatNov 17, 2012 at 21:53
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Gotcha. Maybe it is possible in Server 2012.– joeqwertyNov 17, 2012 at 22:14
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Shared nothing live migrations do work within Hyper-V environments in the same AD. Azure does run Hyper-V on the back end, but those nodes are not joined to your AD so you cannot live migrate to them.– MDMarraJun 18, 2014 at 15:08
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There is no path to live migrate a VM to Windows Azure. Moving a VM to Azure requires shutting down the VM.