Questions :
Q #1 What all RBAC roles does ASR provide for the management.
Q #2 Can I use a guest OS server license on Azure?
Q #3 Pre-requisite of ASR on Azure ?
Q #4 What access to VMware VM’s does Site Recovery need ?
Q #5 What are the components of ASR ?
Q #6 Is replication data sent to Site Recovery?
Q #7 What is mobility agent or service ?
Q #8 Where can I find the Mobility service installers?
Q #9 ASR replicated machine says unable to take app consistent snapshot hence health is critical
Q #10 What happens when you hit enable replication on recovery service ?
Q #11 How do I install the Mobility service?
Q #12 what is asrseeddisk ?
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Q #1 What all RBAC roles does ASR provide for the management.
ASR provides 3 basic roles to perform the various ASR related tasks ans these are :
Site Recovery Contributor - This role has all permissions required to manage Azure Site Recovery operations in a Recovery Services vault. A user with this role, however, can't create or delete a Recovery Services vault or assign access rights to other users.
Q #2 Can I use a guest OS server license on Azure?
Yes, Microsoft Software Assurance
customers can use Azure Hybrid Benefit to save on licensing costs for
Windows Server machines that are migrated to Azure, or to use Azure for
disaster recovery.
Q #3 Pre-requisite of ASR on Azure ?
Azure recovery vault - A vault holds metadata and configuration information for VMs, and other replication components.
Azure virtual network - When Azure VMs are created after failover, they're joined to this network.
Storage account - Holds the replication logs
Q #4 What access to VMware VM’s does Site Recovery need ?
- To
replicate , a VMware VM must have the site recovery Mobility service installed
and running.
- VM’s
communicate with config server on HTTPS port 443 for replication
management.
- VM’s
send replication data to the process server on HTTPS port 9443 (can be modified)
- If
you enable the multi-VM consistency , VM communicate with each other over
port 2004.
Q #5 What are the components of ASR ?
Configuration server
Process server
Mobility service
Master Target Server
https://youtu.be/v3oGAgclojw
Q #6 Is replication data sent to Site Recovery?
No, Site Recovery doesn't intercept replicated data and
doesn't have any information about what's running on your VMs. Replication data
is exchanged between VMware hypervisors and Azure Storage. Site Recovery has no
ability to intercept that data. Only the metadata needed to orchestrate
replication and failover is sent to the Site Recovery service.
Q #7 What is mobility agent or service ?
Mobility agent is responsible for the data replication and
needed to be installed on all the VM’s that you are protecting. Replication of
data is block level and near continuous using Mobility service.
Mobility agent is pushed by the process server on VM’s you
want to replicate.
Mobility agent coordinates communications between your
protected machine, configuration server/scale-out process server and manages
data replication.
Q #8 Where can I find the Mobility service installers?
The installers are in the
%ProgramData%\ASR\home\svsystems\pushinstallsvc\repository folder on the
configuration server.
You can also download it from internet and install but to register you need config servers IP address and Passphrase
Q #9 ASR replicated machine says unable to take app consistent snapshot hence health is critical ?
Azure Site
Recovery VSS provider is required on the source machine to generate application
consistency points. If the installation of the provider didn't succeed through
push installation, follow the below given guidelines to install it manually.
1.
Open
admin cmd window.
2.
Navigate
to the mobility service installation location. (Eg - C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery\agent)
3.
Run
the script InMageVSSProvider_Uninstall.cmd . This will uninstall the service if
it already exists.
4.
Run
the script InMageVSSProvider_Install.cmd to install the VSS provider manually.
Site Recovery will install the Mobility service when
replication is enabled & initial
replication to Azure storage begins
Q #11 How do I install the Mobility service?
Push installation by Process server
Manuall installation by the installer on config server and registration required where we need to provide the config server IP address and passphrase.
Deploy by tool like SCCM
Q #12 what is asrseeddisk ?
It is prefix of Azure managed disk where recovery point created.
For every source disk, data is replicated to a managed disk
in Azure. This disk has the prefix of asrseeddisk. It stores the
copy of the source disk and all the recovery point snapshots.
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