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Moving Azure VMs to on-premises servers

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Many IT pros have become experts at migrating an on-premise server to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. For those who haven’t but want to, there are a lot of tutorials on how to do it. But what if you want to move your virtual machine from Azure back to your on-premise environment? There’s not much information on how to do that, but today you lucky here. In this article, share with you a step-by-step guide to do just that. The on-premise environment we will be using is Windows Server 2016 and a Hyper-V cluster. According to my way, there are a couple of ways to move a VM from Point A to Point B. We will focus on a simple but effective method that can be applied to small to medium migrations. We will be doing everything manually, but we can optimize a good deal of the tasks later on. The entire process consists of three tasks, and those are: assessment of the Azure environment, copying the VHD, and, finally, creating the VMs to match the previous assessment. 1.  ...