Microsoft is now enabling testers of its Migration Accelerator tool to move Linux physical and virtual workloads more easily to Azure.



From All About Microsoft:

On January 14, Microsoft added support to MA for Linux. Using the MA preview tool, users can migrate Linux physical and virtual machines to Azure.The new release supports the migration of Cent OS (6.4, 6.5) and Oracle Linux (6.4, 6.5) to Azure.

To use the new Linux migration capability, new MA customers can sign up for the preview here. Existing MA customers who want to add Linux server migrations to their setup should visit the product help for links to download and install the product, according to Microsoft's blog post.

  Microsoft migration tool enables Linux workloads to move to Azure