Need

• On premises Servers were on Nutanix hypervisor and have rare disk format which is QCOW
• Unsupported case for Azure Site Recovery to replicate on premises virtual machines  to Azure
• Applications are bounded to IP address
• Servers disk size more than 1 TB(not supported case ) IP address mismatch between client and Azure Servers
• Authenticating On prim Domain Controller

Solution

• Migrated the on premises VMs through Lift and Shift
• 3^rd party backup solution(Veeam) was used to back up and restore VMs to Azure
• Used Nested VM solution in azure to migrate more than 1 TB disk VMs
• Provisioned Additional domain controller in azure for authenticating Azure Servers
• Assigned new IPs and subnet in azure VMs and stablished Site to Site connectivity between client and Azure

Outcome

• We were able to migrate all the provisioned client Servers to Azure
• 24X7 support for managing servers, application & database in Azure.
• Reduced cost for Storage and Server provisioning
• Reduced server maintenance cost
• High availability of resources in Cloud.
• Smooth functioning of applications post Migration