Episode

Top Reasons To Rehost your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Running SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines provides a suite of free manageability capabilities that are available only on Azure, and which make it easier to run in a cost-effective, secured, and optimized manner. As a SQL Server customer, you can migrate your SQL workloads to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines while making the most of your current SQL Server license investments and benefit from the manageability benefits that SQL Server virtual machines offer today. In this episode with Amit Banerjee, we will cover why running SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine provides the best lift-and-shift experience for workloads where OS-level access is required.

[00:55] Using the Azure Hybrid Benefit
[01:30] SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
[02:32] Demo on Azure portal
[07:43] Getting started
 
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