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If you’re looking to download an Azure Virtual Machine to either VMware or Hyper-V for cost savings or compliance reasons, our software Carbon automates the process with just a few clicks. With Carbon, you won’t need to use PowerShell or download the VHD from the Azure portal.
To download your Azure VM to your preferred hypervisor, simply follow the steps outlined below for VMware.
First, download and install Carbon. Then, select your Azure VM and specify your VMware environment as the target. Carbon will handle the rest, downloading and converting your Azure VM to VMware.
In addition to VMware, Carbon also supports Hyper-V as a target environment. So whether you need to export your Azure VM to VMware or Hyper-V, Carbon can help.
To get started, download a free trial of Carbon and try it out for yourself. Don’t waste time with manual downloads or complicated PowerShell scripts – let Carbon simplify the process for you.
Once you have authenticated against your Azure Tenant, Carbon will now start scanning your Azure environment for all your Azure Virtual Machines.
This could obviously take some time if you have a large Azure Environment.
Once the scan of your Azure VMs has completed, you will see the list of all the Azure VMs in your Azure Tenancy.
Now you should see a list of all the virtual machines you have in your Azure Environment.
Details displayed include:
Now if the Azure VMs I am going to convert to VMware are using Azure Managed Disks, I will get this prompt.
Click OK to proceed.
What Carbon will do next is copy this Azure VM disks to a storage account that you specify in the next screen.
Please take note of the location of your Azure VM, as you want to use an Azure Storage Account in the same region.
Now we are presented with your virtual environment (in this case our VMware vCentre environment)
Choose from the dropdown lists the VMware Host, the datastore and virtual network you want your Azure VM to download to.
You have the option here to send you an email once the migration has completed.
Click Start Migration to proceed to the final step
As the conversion uses your local machine, make sure you have enough free space on your computer for the VHD to download and convert to. Once this is done it will then upload the disks to your VMware environment and setup your Virtual machine.
Now the conversion process is underway, with your Azure VM being downloaded then converted to the appropriate format for either VMware or Hyper-V, before finally being deployed to your on-premise virtual infrastructure.
Please Note: This may take sometime dependent on the size of your Azure VM disks, so please be patient.
If you have email alerting setup and turned on, you will receive an email once the process has completed.
And that’s all there is to it. You have downloaded an Azure VM and converted it to VMware or Hyper-V. (Obviously in this example we converted the Azure VM to VMWare. For HyperV the last few steps are replacing VCentre with SCVMM)
You can download a fully functioning trial of Carbon here to test it for yourself.
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