How to Move/Migrate Azure VM from one tenant to another tenant.

Question

Hi All,

I have eight Azure VM on one tenant. when current CSP expire on one tenant in next month, I'd like to move them Azure VM and other services within one tenant to a new tenant.

How i Move/Migrate Azure VM from one tenant to another new tenant for mininal impact application running on those Azure VM?

BR,

Thanakrit

Answer 1

The Azure Resources like VMs are always associated with a subscription. So basically you need to move your VMs from one subscription in Tenant A to a subscription in Tenant B.

Now If you want to migrate one VM, in Tenant A, you can use Azure Storage Explorer (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/storage-explorer/#overview) and Copy the Disk for the VM from Tenant A and paste it to Tenant B. You need to repeat this for each disk associated with your VM. Once the new disks are created you can create a new VM in Tenant B by attaching the disks that you already pasted in Tenant B.

Refer: https://www.remotelyrmm.com/blog/how-to-migrate-an-azure-virtual-machine-from-one-tenant-to-another

If you have one or two VMs, you can follow the above method.

But in case you have many resources follow the below steps.

1. Create subscription in Tenant A (This subscription is for migration purpose) and move all your resources that needs to be moved to this subscription. Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/move-resource-group-and-subscription
2. Once you moved all your resources to a subscription in Tenant A, then move that subscription to Tenant B. Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/transfer-subscription

Hope this helps

Please let us know if any questions

Thanks

Deepanshu