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articles/migrate/tutorial-migrate-physical-virtual-machines.md

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2. In **Replicate**, > **Source settings** > **Are your machines virtualized?**, select **Not virtualized/Other**.
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3. In **On-premises appliance**, select the name of the Azure Migrate appliance that you set up.
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4. In **Process Server**, select the name of the replication appliance.
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6. In **Guest credentials**, you specify a VM admin account that will be used for push installation of the Mobility service. In this tutorial we're installing the Mobility service manually, so you can add any dummy account. Then click **Next: Virtual machines**.
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6. In **Guest credentials**, you specify a dummy account that will be used for installing the Mobility service manually (push install is not supported in Physical). Then click **Next: Virtual machines**.
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![Replicate VMs](./media/tutorial-migrate-physical-virtual-machines/source-settings.png)
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2. In **Replicating machines**, right-click the VM > **Migrate**.
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3. In **Migrate** > **Shut down virtual machines and perform a planned migration with no data loss**, select **Yes** > **OK**.
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- By default Azure Migrate shuts down the on-premises VM, and runs an on-demand replication to synchronize any VM changes that occurred since the last replication occurred. This ensures no data loss.
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- If you don't want to shut down the VM, select **No**
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Note: For Physical Server Migration, the recommendation is to bring the application down as part of the migration window (don't let the applications accept any connections) and then initiate the migration (The server needs to be kept running, so remaining changes can be synchronized) before the migration is completed.
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4. A migration job starts for the VM. Track the job in Azure notifications.
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5. After the job finishes, you can view and manage the VM from the **Virtual Machines** page.
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