Comparison matrix

The following comparison matrix shows basic functionality of different tools that can be used for migration of unstructured data.

Tip

Azure File Sync can be utilized for migrating data to Azure Files, even if you don't intend to use a hybrid solution for on-premises caching or syncing. This migration process is efficient and causes no downtime. To use Azure File Sync as a migration tool, simply deploy it and, after the migration is finished, remove the server endpoint. Ideally Azure File Sync would be used long-term, while Storage Mover and AzCopy are intended for migration focused activities.

Overview comparison

Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo Cirrus Data
Solution name AzCopy Azure Storage Mover Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria Migrate Cloud
Support provided by Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics1 Komprise1 Atempo1 Cirrus Data1
Assessment No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
SAN Migration No No No No No Yes
NFS to Azure Blob Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
NFS to NFS No No Yes Yes Yes No
SMB to Azure Files Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SMB to Azure NetApp Files No No Yes Yes Yes No
Lustre No No No No Yes No

Tip

As Cirrus Data specializes in SAN / Block data migrations, we have ommitted them from the remainder of this document. For more information about Cirrus Data and their Migrate Cloud solution, please review the Cirrus Data getting Started Guide.

Supported Azure services

Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name AzCopy Azure Storage Mover Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria
Support provided by Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics1 Komprise1 Atempo1
Azure Files support (all tiers) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure NetApp Files support No No Yes Yes Yes
Azure Blob Hot / Cool support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure Blob Archive tier support Yes No No Yes Yes
Azure Data Lake Storage support Yes No Yes Yes No
Supported Sources Any NAS, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Google Cloud Storage, and AWS S3 Any SMB/NFS share on servers and NAS devices Any NAS, and S3 Any NAS, Cloud File Storage, or S3 Any NAS, S3, PFS, and Swift

Supported protocols (source / destination)

Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name AzCopy Azure Storage Mover Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria
SMB 2.1 Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
SMB 3.0 Source Source Yes Yes Yes
SMB 3.1 Source/Destination (Azure Files SMB) Source/Destination (Azure Files SMB) Yes Yes Yes
NFS v3 Source/Destination (Azure Blob NFSv3) Source/Destination (Azure Blob NFSv3) Yes Yes Yes
NFS v4.1 Source Source Yes No Yes
Blob REST API Yes Destination Yes Yes Yes
S3 Source No Yes Yes Yes
Google Cloud Storage Source No Yes Yes Yes

Extended features

Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name AzCopy Azure Storage Mover Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria
UID / SID remapping No No Yes No No
Protocol ACL remapping No No No No No
Azure Data Lake Storage Yes No Yes Yes No
Throttling support Yes No Yes No Yes
File pattern exclusions Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Support for selective file attributes No No Yes Yes Yes
Delete propagations No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Follow NTFS junctions No No No Yes Yes
Override SMB Owner and Group Owner No No Yes No Yes
Chain of custody reporting No No Yes Yes Yes
Support for alternate data streams No No Yes No Yes
Scheduling for migration No No Yes Yes Yes
Preserving ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DACL support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SACL support Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Preserving access time Yes (Azure Files) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Preserving modified time Yes (Azure Files) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Preserving creation time Yes (Azure Files) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Azure Data Box support Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Migration of snapshots No No Yes No No
Symbolic link support Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Hard link support Migrated as separate files Migrated as separate files Yes Yes Yes
Support for open / locked files No No Yes Yes Yes
Incremental migration Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Switchover support No No Yes No (manual only) Yes
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Assessment and reporting

Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name AzCopy Azure Storage Mover Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria
Capacity No Reporting Yes Yes Yes
# of files / folders Yes Reporting Yes Yes Yes
Age distribution over time No No Yes Yes Yes
Access time No No Yes Yes Yes
Modified time No No Yes Yes Yes
Creation time No No Yes Yes Yes
Per file / object report status Yes Reporting Yes Yes Yes

Licensing

Microsoft Microsoft Data Dynamics Komprise Atempo
Solution name AzCopy Azure Storage Mover Data Mobility and Migration Elastic Data Migration Miria
BYOL Free Free Yes Yes Yes
Azure Commitment Free Free Yes Yes No

Other features

AzCopy

  • Multi-platform support
  • Windows 32-bit / 64-bit
  • Linux x86-64 and ARM64
  • macOS Intel and ARM64
  • Benchmarking azcopy bench
  • Supports block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs
  • MD5 checks for downloads
  • Customizable transfer rate to preserve bandwidth on the client
  • Tagging

Data Dynamics Data Mobility and Migration

  • Hash validation

Komprise Elastic Data Migration

  • Project/directory based migrations
  • Migration prechecks with analytics
  • Migration planning with analytics
  • Assessment / reporting: File types, file size, project based
  • Assessment / reporting: Custom metadata-based searches
  • Simple UI migration management
  • API access to automate large migration jobs
  • Automatic retry of failures
  • Access time-based analytics for Azure Blob Storage, and S3
  • Tagging support
  • Support 24 x 7 x 365
  • In-product support via chat built-in
  • Hash validation

Atempo Miria

  • Custom metadata management
  • Automation through API
  • Petabyte-scale data movements
  • Hash validation

Note

List was last verified on August 24, 2023

See also

Important

1 Support provided by ISV, not Microsoft