Hi, my name is Anoop, and i am a Senior Program Manager with the Azure Site Recovery team
In this video I am gonna walk you through our new and simplified onboarding experience
This experience will get you setup and ready to replicate your VMware virtual machines in less than 30 minutes
To get started, you will need to download and deploy the configuration server appliance in your VMware envrionment
You can do this by browsing to your Recovery Services vault
Go to the Getting started for Azure Site Recovery
Click on the Prepare infrastructure
Choose the VMware scenario
Ensure you have done your deployment planning. For now i'll mark it as "I'll do it later"
Once you get to the source preparation page, click on the + Configuration server buton
And in the Add Server details page, that comes up. Click on the download Configuration server virtual appliance link to download the OVF
Once the download is complete, import the Configuration server virtual machine using the "Deploy OVF template" wizard in your vCenter envrionment
and boot up the VM
Once the Windows boot up sequence is complete, you would be presented with the end-user license agreement for Windows Server 2016
Accept the EULA
and then setup and Administrator password
This will finalize your Windows settings and you will be requested to log back in into the Windows Server
Login into the appliance with your administrator password.
On first login the appliance will launch a configuration utility
to help you configure its name,
Internet connectivity settings,
and a few other Active Directory Settings.
Provide the computer name first.
click on the Next button
The appliance will start checking if the Internet connectivity is fine, and it is able to access the necessary service URLs
Once all the connectivity has been established it will request you to sign in into Azure
Sign-in with your Azure Credentials
Once the sign-in is complete, the appliance will register itself with Azure Active Directory and then request for a reboot
Once the reboot is complete login back inot the appliance as an Administrator
After the login process completes, the appliance will launch a Configuration server web portal that will guide you through the Site Recovery registration process
The first step in the wizard is to setup connectivity.
Select the network interface card that would be used to receive the replication data on this Configuration server
Click on the Save button.
and then the Continue button to move to the next step
The select Recovery Services vault step allows you to choose which Recovery services vault, this server needs to be connected to.
Click on the Sign In button to log in with your Azure account,
and once the log in is complete, go ahead and select teh Recovery services vault from the list of your subscriptions.
Once you have selected,
hit the Continue button to proceed to the next step
The next step involves installing 3rd party softwares.
There are 2 software that you need to install, which is MySQL Server and PowerCLI
MySQL Server can be automatically downloaded and installed by clicking the "Download and Install" button
The software installation takes a couple of minutes, so let me quickly jump to a state whee both these software are already installed
Alright, both PowerCLI and MySQL has now been installed.
let us hit the Continue buttion to move to the next stage
In this stage, we do a final check to see if all the settings on the appliance are in the right state.
and you can hit the Continue button to move to the next phase
The next step is to set up the credentials to access your vCenter environment
you might have a vCenter or a vSphere ESX server.
You can provide the credentials to access those servers as a part of this wizard
This information will be used by Azure Site Recovery to automatically discover the VMs running in your VMware envrionment.
so let me fill up this data
On clicking the Add button we validate if the credentials and the vCenter details are accurate and then add it to our Configuration
Click the Continue button to move to the next stage
This stage allows you to configure a set of virtual machine credentials.
which would be used by Azure Site Recovery service to install Mobility service on the protected virtual machines
Click on the Add virtual machine credential button to go ahead and add new credentials.
you can add both Windows and Linux credentials.
Provide a friendly name for the account
Provide the actual name of the account and then the password.
Click on the Add button to add the virtual machine credentials
Click the Continue button to move to the next step.
Click on the Finalize configuration button to start the final configuration
This step usually takes five to ten minutes, so i'll skip to a state where all of these steps have been completed successfully
Alright now that our configuration server is registered to the recovery services vault, we can head back up to the portal to complete the Getting Started wizard we had started earlier
Once back on the portal, you can see that the Configuration Server and the vCenter has been added to your vault
Click OK
On the target preparation page. You know go ahead and select the storage account details as well as the network details
Click OK
And finally on the replication settings page
click the + create and associate button to create a new replication policy
and associate it with the configuration server
i am gonna accept the default values
Once this is completed
click the OK button and complete your Getting Started wizard.
You are now ready to start replicating your VMware virtual machines into Azure all under 30 minutes
Thank you for your time and have a good day!!