Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) - Replicating VMs
Azure ASR – Replicating VMs
Navigate to Recovery Services vaults - Microsoft Azure
Select the correct vault (TC-ASRV-Prod-uksouth-001)
Select “Replicated Items”
The replicated VMs are grouped together for recovery. If adding to an existing group select the 3 elipses to the right of the group and select “Add Virtual Machine”
If you are adding a machine that is either standalone or part of a group that is not yet created, Select “Replicate” from the top menu and “VMWare and Physical Machines to Azure”
The following steps assume you have chosen to add a new VM that doesn’t belong to an existing group.
Select the VMs you wish to replicate, you can use the search bar and tick multiple VMs, once done, click next
There are a number of credential sets stored on the ASR Replication Appliance (TCINFAZURSR02), on this screen, choose the correct credentials for the domain of the VM.
i.e. Traffordlocal, Public or Traffordgovuk
On the “Target Properties” page you will select the config settings for the VMs you wish to replicate.
Target Subscription – Leave as TC Infrastructure DR (the azure subscription where the resources will be stored)
Target Resource Group – Leave as rg-rsv-prod-uksouth-001 (The azure resource group where the resources will be stored)
Configure Failover Network – Select Yes (by choosing this we are setting up a failover network to use when the VM is brought online in Azure)
Failover Azure Network – Leave as vnet-dr-prod-uksouth-001 (172.16.248.0/24 network in Azure)
Target Subnet – Leave as snet-dr-prod-uksouth-001
Test failover network settings – Leave as “Same as failover network settings”
Cache storage account – Leave as sttcasrcacheuks001
Replication settings – Choose the appropriate setting for the workload
24-hour-replication-polcy for none critical low rate of change
3day for high rate of change critical workloads
If you want to group these VMs for recovery or to add others in the future, select “Have consistent states across machines by creating a replication group”
Then click “Create replication group”, give the group a name and add the relevant VMs
Click “Next”
Review the settings, once happy, click “Enable replication”
You can now review the progress of the replication from the “Replicated Items” page
For more info see the following site Set up VMware VM disaster recovery to Azure with Azure Site Recovery - Modernized - Azure Site Recovery | Microsoft Learn