I have a new install of Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role setup and a couple VMs running along fat, dumb, and happy. I want to play with Azure hosting for VMs for a couple of stand-alone boxes. Is there anything special that I need to wire up to be able to live-migrate to Azure? I have the 90-day Azure trial account right now. Any special plumbing required? I have not found a lot of documentation about this yet. Everything I found points to manually copying the VHDs via command line and the Azure 2012 SDK.
Azure – How to live-migrate Hyper-V to Azure
azurehyper-v-server-2012live-migration
Best Answer
There is no path to live migrate a VM to Windows Azure. Moving a VM to Azure requires shutting down the VM.