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Microsoft and mate release Azure transporter beam

Open source migration code shunts your IaaS around inside Redmond-land

As cloud providers add more regions, folks who've committed to one data centre may find they have good reasons to move to another.

At that point users are likely to discover that for all the talk of cloud making one more agile than an Olympic, moving infrastructure-as-a-service around inside and between clouds requires extraordinary contortions.

Microsoft and partner Persistent Systems have a fix: the Azure Data Center Migration Solution (ADCMS), a tool that allows one to automate the migration of Microsoft Azure resources:

  • From one subscription to another subscription in the same data center (region);
  • From one subscription to another subscription in different data centers;
  • In the same subscription with different data centers;
  • In the same subscription with the same data center.

Wielders of the tool will be able to shunt Affinity groups, virtual networks, cloud services, storage accounts and virtual machines between Azure bit barns.

The tool's manual suggests that attempting to roll-your-own migration tool will probably work, but is unlikely to be much use for your next migration. ADCMS aims to offer a generic tool for all occasions and, because it's open source, can also be customised after you grab it from here on GitHub.

Persistent says the tool's been thoroughly tested on rigs of up to 100 VMs, but there doesn't seem to be any support for the software or recourse if it doesn't behave as advertised.

Caveat emptor. ®

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