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I'm looking into migrating a fairly small (8GB) database from 'SQL Server instance on a VM' to 'SQL Server Managed Instance', but struggling with defining the spec. My VM version is Standard B4ms, 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB RAM, and performance is fine. Can I move to 'Standard-series (Gen 5)', 'vCORE 4' and 'General purpose' without loss of performance, or do I need to get something more expensive?
The price leap is huge, so I don't want to if I don't need to!
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Hi, Jonathan
Your best bet would be to utilise the Azure SQL Migration assistant against the databases you want to migrate to Azure. You can leave this running for a few days to calculate and read the database performance and then supply recommendations, based on performance.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of this tool. Looks like it will be very helpful.