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Azure Migrate Initial Discovery of all 3 type of sources VMware, HyperV and Physical servers

Currently we have servers on all 3 sources as below in the on-premises environment.
VMware = 300+
HyperV = 37
Physical = 24

Can we perform initial discovery of all 3 sources using 1 migrate appliance deployed with OVA file in VMware host?

I know there are 3 different ways to deploy azure migrate via OVA, VHD and Powershell script, just want to understand if we have 1 appliance can we discover all 3 sources. If yes then the port and credential requirement will remain same as mention in Microsoft docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-discover-vmware and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-discover-hyper-v and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-discover-physical?

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Hi Sadiqh Ahmed,

Thank you for providing the answer, i have already gone through that article and it specifically talks about having multiple VMWARE environment and does not states anything for mix environment.

However it is clear now that we need 3 appliances for all 3 different sources, thanks for confirming this.

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Sachin

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@Sachin-Panchal Glad to know it helped! :)

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@Sachin-Panchal Thank you for your post and I apologize for the delayed response!

We need three appliances one for each environment. If we have more than one VMware environment, then we need that many appliances. This logic applies - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/common-questions-appliance#can-the-azure-migrate-appliance-connect-to-multiple-vcenter-servers for all the sources (VMware, Hyper-V and Physical). That being said, we do not have unified appliance available as of now.

If you think this is one of the key requirement/enhancement that Azure migrate appliance should have then I recommend you to share this as a feedback directly to Azure migrate feature PM through UserVoice forum.


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Hi Sadiqh Ahmed,

I have follow up question in regards to same environment. If I build 3 appliances on VMWARE host (Appliance1, Appliance2 and Appliance3), can i discover all 3 sources.

example
Appliance1 > VMWARE environment
Appliance2 > Hyper-V environment
Appliance3 > Physical servers

Note: All 3 appliance are hosted on VMWARE.

Regards
Sachin

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@Sachin-Panchal Yes. You can as long as appliance has line of sight to the environment.
But this is not our official stand.

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@SadiqhAhmed-MSFT Thanks for your assistance, yes required ports and pre-requisites are taken care, so i assume it will work

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