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Part 5: ASR Invoking a DR-Drill

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Overview

Welcome back folks, in this part of the guide we’ll be running through a DR-Drill for one of the VMs we protected in the last section.  Feel free to extend this drill to include multiple VMs if you’re feeling fruity 🙂

A couple of things to note before continuing:

  • Did you make sure to enable RDP on the public profile?
    • Or are you connecting to the VMs over a VPN connection?
  • Did you apply all pending Windows Updates?
    • If not, these will be applied as soon as the VM comes up in Azure, locking you out from RDP for a bit

So assuming we’re all good, let’s continue.

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Part 4: ASR Enable Replication for VMware VMs

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Overview

Welcome back folks.  In this section of the guide we’ll be setting up the replication of our VMware VMs to a recovery vault in our Azure subscription.  Once we’ve successfully replicated one or more of our VMs, we also run a DR-Drill to confirm that’s all working as intended (next section of the guide).  Let’s get on with it:

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Part 3: ASR Deploy a Configuration Server

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Overview

Welcome back folks. In this section we’ll be running through a step-by-step process for deploying an ASR Configuration Server. This server is vitally important within an ASR deployment as it not only handles the comms between your on-premises VMware environment and Azure but is also responsible for handling data replication. If you’ve been following the whole series thus far, great, but if not I’d suggest you have a look back at the Azure Site Recovery page before continuing. With no further ado let’s crack on.

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