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Moving SPP from VM to Azure Datastore

andrew myers
7 months ago

I have a client with 3 SPP appliances in their VMware setup, and they are looking to migrate to Azure. 

Their first question is whether or not they would be able to simply move the VMs to a datastore that lives in Azure, and if so what benefits that gives them.

If a simple lift and shift like that would not be feasible, what is the process for moving to Azure? Is it possible to take a backup of an on-prem VM and use that in the setup for an Azure appliance?

This is in the Federal space if that matters, so they won't have access to the Azure Marketplace.

Thanks,

Andrew

  • 0 7 months ago

    Hi Andrew,

    Yes you can use backup \ restore to rebuild a SPP cluster. OnPrem VMs backup are compatible with OnCloud VMs (VM to VM backup\restore is supported)

    https://support.oneidentity.com/one-identity-safeguard-for-privileged-passwords/kb/4251775/rebuilding-a-safeguard-cluster-from-backup

    You could also join an Azure SPP VM to an onPrem cluster (having that all the required network ports are allowed TCP/443 and UDP/655 for 7.0 LTS and above) then after the join and replication is completed, you could promote the Azure SPP VM as Primary and unjoin the onprem replicas then add other Azure SPP replicas.

    I am not aware of a way to move the VMs from onprem to Azure directly as is. I will defer this question to others that may know or you may consult with our Professional Services team.

    Thanks!

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to Tawfiq.Ahmad

    Hi Tawfiq,

    Thanks for the response. Do you know if there are any pitfalls for doing this in the Government sector? i.e. are there specific images or anything else that we would need to use?

    Also for deferring the "lift and shift" question, do you know who I could reach out to for that? Or would I need to make a ticket for that inquiry?

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to andrew myers

    Hi Andrew

    My Safeguard lab runs on VMWare and I regularly copy images and move them to  between my ESX server and the VMWare Workstation on my laptop.

    I usually build a single stand-alone system then copy it twice to build a cluster. Just have to make sure that original is powered off before spinning up copy to avoid IP conflict.

    VMWare basically asks if I moved or copied and saying copied always works for me.

    Never tried to shift a VM to Azure though.

    So interest spiked a quick search found a MS vid. that talked about their Azure Migrate tool.

    https://youtu.be/0s2ZqHgieT0 

    As ever with MS  this makes it look simple... It maybe but without knowing more about your exact requirements difficult to say. 

    If you have an Azure environment you can simulate what customer has should be a fairy simple test to setup.

    All the best

    Tim