Moving already created servers to azure Dev.

Question

Hello, Is there any way to move already created servers and associated resources from a standard production environment to Dev/labs? We have found that devlabs is not that expensive and we need to streamline operations, e.g. by using Visual license? Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello, please note that while Azure DevTest Labs is cheaper, it's NOT meant to run production workloads. It's meant exclusively for development and testing only. You'll be violating the usage terms if you run your production workloads on it. See the below screenshot from the documentation - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devtest-labs/devtest-lab-guidance-governance-resources#optimize-for-cost

You'll also see a reference to the common usage scenarios of the DevTest Labs mentioned here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devtest-labs/devtest-lab-overview#common-devtest-labs-scenarios

The reason I'm calling these out pretty explicitly is because you have used the term "standard production environment" in the question that you've posted above. So, if you want to move your existing environment to Azure DevTest Labs VM for development or testing purposes, you can easily leverage Azure Migrate for the same. See the documentation here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/migrate/azure-best-practices/contoso-migration-devtest-to-labs

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