Configuring Azure Site Recovery for on-premises VMs
As we have learned throughout this book, Windows Admin Center greatly streamlines a lot of the configuration tasks for modern infrastructure management, and the configuration of Azure Site Recovery is no exception. Windows Admin Center merely requires internet connectivity and a gateway registration to your Azure tenant and subscription, at which point a myriad of Azure Hybrid Services immediately become available to you.
A visual representation of the Azure Hybrid Center can be seen in Figure 11.3; additional details on the setup and configuration for Windows Admin Center and Azure integration can be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/azure/:
Figure 11.3 – Azure Hybrid Center as seen in Windows Admin Center
Let’s review the steps for protecting our on-premises Hyper-V virtual machines with ASR:
- To begin, it is necessary to set up and...