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What is the pricing for Azure Mover

Sky High 311 Reputation points
2022-09-29T09:18:15.067+00:00

What is the pricing for Azure Mover?
How can we integrate with Azure Migrate service. Does it need any agents to transfer or copy the data from OnPremise NFS to Azure blob. What could be the speed that we can expect?
How can we secure the Azure mover service from external accesses?

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  1. Sumarigo-MSFT 47,471 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2022-09-29T14:30:49.38+00:00

    @Sky High Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

    For better understanding the issue: Are you referring to Azure Resource Mover or Azure Storage Mover

    • This YouTube video will explain detailed information on Azure Resource Mover

    Azure Resource Mover is a free service available with any Azure subscription.
    Azure Resource Mover is available at no additional charge. However, you may incur charges associated with the move:

    1. Network Bandwidth costs: These are costs associated to data moving out of Azure regions.
    2. Egress or Outbound data transfer costs: E.g.: While moving a VM from source to target region, you will incur network egress costs to replicate data changes from the source VM disks to another Azure region. Azure Resource Mover utilises ASR replication technology underneath, which compresses the data before transfer. Hence, egress cost is charged for the compressed replication data.
    3. Temporary resources costs: Charges might be incurred due to temporary resources on target region (E.g.: Storage resources to host replica disks) required while the move is happening.
    4. Fixed costs: Licensing or fixed costs can be incurred as part of the regional move. E.g. ASR licensing costs for VM replication or SQL Geo replication costs to move SQL DBs across regions.
      • Azure Storage Mover is a migration service for your on-premises file shares to Azure.

    When you migrate a share to Azure, you'll need to describe the source share, the Azure target, and any migration settings you want to apply. These attributes are defined in a job definition within your storage mover resource. This article describes how to create and run such a job definition. How to define and start a migration job

    Understanding Azure Storage Mover billing

    If you have any additional questions or need further clarification, please let me know.

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  1. Lief Eric Malone 396 Reputation points
    2022-09-29T09:54:03.127+00:00

    Thanks for your question about Azure Mover. It's a free azure service, however, you may incur some egress fees for moving from one region to another. More information is here: resource-mover

    Your second question relates to Azure Migrate. Yes, Azure Migrate needs an agent/appliance to be able to migrate VMs from on-premises to Azure -- this can be a standalone VM or a repurposed machine. Details will depend on your host environment. As far as speed -- it's highly dependent on your internet connection. You will be able to make cost assessments in less than an hour, but as far as the speed of an actual move -- it depends on the amount of data being migrated. More information is here: migrate

    The security of Azure Mover really depends on your security settings in your subscription, but it's generally secured based on your Azure AD / Azure Portal account.

    If this response was helpful, please mark it as an accepted answer to help others who have the same issue as yourself.

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