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At the end you will have AzCopy on your machine, be authorised to your storage account, and have copied or synchronised a local folder to a blob container or an Azure file share, with a way to check and resume the job.
9 stepsAzureInstall the Azure CLI and sign inAt the end you will have the az command working on your PC or Mac, be signed in to your Azure tenant and have the right subscription selected. If you cannot install software, use Azure Cloud Shell instead.
9 stepsAzureSet up the Azure Migrate appliance and start discoveryAt the end you will have an Azure Migrate project, a registered appliance on your network and discovery running against vCenter Server or your physical servers, with the inventory flowing into the Azure portal.
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All errors →AADSTS50005: User tried to log in to a device from a platform (Unknown) that's currently not supported through Conditional Access policyazcopy login is blocked because a Conditional Access policy only allows sign-in from certain device types.
Azuredial tcp: lookup proxy.x.x: no such hostAzCopy cannot reach Azure because the proxy server it has been told to use cannot be found.
Azurex509: certificate signed by unknown authorityAzCopy does not trust the TLS certificate it receives, usually because a proxy is inspecting the traffic.
Azure403 This request is not authorized to perform this operation - CannotVerifyCopySourceAn AzCopy copy between two storage accounts fails because the destination account cannot reach the source over the network.
Azure503 Server BusyAzure Storage is throttling AzCopy because the transfer is sending more requests or data than the account allows.
AzureGatewayServiceException: The operation failed with the error 'Memory allocation failed. Out of memory.'Agentless VMware replication fails because the NFC buffer on the ESXi host is too small for the number of disks being replicated.
Azure MigrateThe last replication cycle for the virtual machine failed. Encountered timeout event.An agentless VMware replication cycle timed out because the source server is busy.
Azure MigrateThe provided manifest file is invalid: Invalid OVF manifest entryDeploying the Azure Migrate appliance OVA in vSphere fails because the download is corrupt or incomplete.
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