One might argue what is the point in running a cloud infrastructure software like OpenStack on top of another one, namely the Azure public cloud as in this blog post. The main use cases are typically testing and API compatibility, but as Azure nested virtualization and pass-through features came a long way recently in terms…
Microsoft Azure Stack brings Azure on-premise and with that comes the opportunity to migrate your workloads from other on-prem cloud and virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere, System Center VMM, Hyper-V or OpenStack. Coriolis provides an agentless migration and DRaaS solution to consolidate all your workloads on an Azure Stack on-premise cluster or on the Azure…
Both Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation / Fusion use the popular VMDK virtual disk format, optionally as part of an OVA package. Here’s a quick HOWTO on converting VMDK disks to the VHD or VHDX formats for Hyper-V or Azure To begin with, if you have a file with the OVA extension (e.g. exported from VirtualBox), this is just…
Migrating existing workloads between clouds is a necessity for a large number of use cases, especially for user moving from traditional virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere or Microsoft System Center VMM to Azure / Azure Stack, OpenStack, Amazon AWS or Google Cloud. Furthermore, cloud to cloud migrations, like AWS to Azure are also a common requirement. Project Coriolis™ addresses exactly those…