how do you migrate vm's from standard Azure to Azure gov?

Derek Kizer

Azure Migrate does not support migrating VMs from commercial Azure to Azure Government. However, there are a few options you can consider:

1. You can use Azure Site Recovery to replicate your VMs from commercial Azure to Azure Government. Once the replication is complete, you can failover the VMs to Azure Government. You can find more information on how to set up Azure Site Recovery here.
   Here are the high-level steps to migrate VMs using Azure Site Recovery:
   1. Verify connectivity and make sure the machine can access the required URLs.
   2. Set up a configuration server and register the source and target environments.
   3. Create a replication policy and enable replication for the VMs you want to migrate.
   4. Test the migration by performing a test failover.
   5. Perform a planned failover to migrate the VMs.
   6. After the migration is complete, perform any necessary post-migration tasks, such as updating host names, database connection strings, and web server configuration
2. You can use Azure Backup to back up your VMs in commercial Azure and restore them in Azure Government. This option requires you to create a new VM in Azure Government and restore the data from the backup. You can find more information on how to set up Azure Backup here.

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