Microsoft Azure Site Recovery - VMWARE -vCenter

When using ASR in VMWARE does one need access to vCenter or the ESX host at any point in the replication/Failover/Failback process?

Or to put it another way. Assuming one only has access to the VM can it still be backed up and managed via ASR?

Thanks

Eamonn

September 10th, 2015 3:57am

Hi,

Can you please further explain your query.

In order to use ASR with VMWare, a prerequisites will be access to VCenter and ESXi servers.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/site-recovery-vmware-to-azure/

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VMware

A VMware vCenter server managing your VMware vSphere hypervisors. It should be running vCenter version 5.1 or 5.5 with the latest updates.

One or more vSphere hypervisors containing VMware virtual machines you want to protect. The hypervisor should be running ESX/ESXi version 5.1 or 5.5 with the latest updates.

VMware virtual machines should have VMware tools installed and running.

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But, if you want just to protect/Replicate a VM, without having access to the hosts, you can consider it as a physical machine, and protect it. You will find guidance on the same link

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September 10th, 2015 5:05am

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-site-recovery-at-ignite-2015/

About 33min into the video you see where once connects into vCenter.

Thanks Samir Farhat for the correct answer.

September 11th, 2015 10:13am

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