How can we migrate virtual machines from Digital Ocean to Microsoft Azure

Question

We have around 40 Linux Vm's and a Windows Vm that needs to be migrated from Digital ocean to Azure. Can we use Azure migrate to migrate the virtual machines?
Please, let me know if there is any other approach to do that.

Even if we use RSYNC for transferring and synchronizing the files as mentioned in the link how-to-migrate-linux-servers-part-3-final-steps

Will it be a standard process?

Answer 1

Hi,

Azure Migrate has the capability of migrating VMware, Hyper-V virtual machines and physical machines from other public clouds.

You can refer to the following links for more information:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-migrate
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/migration

Best regards,
Leon

Answer 2

AFAIK digitalocean doesn't allow hosting windows servers. And Azure Migrate appliance can only be a windows machine. Which is why you can use below workaround to migrate these servers using Azure Migrate or ASR :

1.) Create a windows machine on Azure and install Azure Migrate Appliance on this windows machine.
2.) Setup connectivity between digitalocean servers and this Azure machine. You can use site to site VPN or express route for this connectivity.
3.) Use physical to azure workflow and configure replication using below article :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-migrate-physical-virtual-machines

Hope this helps.