Can we select the region while creating Azure migrate project

Shashank 61 Reputation points
2021-03-25T11:59:23.517+00:00

I noticed that once you select the Geography as US, it creates artifacts in random US region. For ex: if my footprint is in WUS2 region, Can I ensure that the resources are getting created in the same region?

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  1. SUNOJ KUMAR YELURU 13,921 Reputation points MVP
    2021-03-25T12:37:51.44+00:00

    Hi anonymous user

    The geography is only used to store the metadata gathered from on-premises servers. You can select any target region for migration.

    Create a project in a specific region
    In the portal, you can select the geography in which you want to create the project. If you want to create the project within a specific Azure region, using the following API command to create the project. 

    PUT /subscriptions/<subid>/resourceGroups/<rg>/providers/Microsoft.Migrate/MigrateProjects/<mymigrateprojectname>?api-version=2018-09-01-preview "{location: 'centralus', properties: {}}"

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/create-manage-projects

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  2. SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 36,961 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2021-03-27T14:33:00.707+00:00

    anonymous user When going through creating a Migrate Project you will be asked what region to create the project in. This is only used to store the information regarding the Project itself. Such as assessment info, servers, type of migration etc.

    When you then go through and do the migration, you will be specifically asked which region to migrate the VM to.

    Here is a document outlining the supported regions for project creation and a bit more explanation
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/migrate-support-matrix#supported-geographies-public-cloud

    Here you can see directly under step 6 that you specify the target region for migration/replication when you enable replication on the VM.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-migrate-vmware#replicate-vms

    Hope this helps!

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