Time Estimate in Azure Resource Mover

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Time Estimate in Azure Resource Mover

Kapil Gautam 1

How can I estimate the time to move Resources from one region to another region using Azure Resource Mover?
How much time does it actually take for moving the Resources from one region to another (Eg.: West US to Central US) using Azure Resource Mover, how do I plan for calculation of time it will take to move my resources and what it depends on? Does other factors or factors like size of the disks associated to the VMs, VMs sizes, Backup vaults, Backup sizes, etc. has effects on the time it will take to move them to another region?

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Answer 1

@Kapil Gautam Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, Thank you for posting your here!!

Total time estimate for the whole process of Azure Resource mover depends on the VM disk size as it should copy the disk from one region to another.

During the commit operation on the VM. replica VMs are created in the target region. The source VM is shut down, and some downtime occurs (usually minutes).

Using Resource Mover, you can currently move the following resources across regions and backup is not included yet.

Azure VMs and associated disks
Encrypted Azure VMs and associated disks. This includes VMs with Azure disk encryption enabled, and Azure VMs using default server-side encryption (both with platform-managed keys and customer-managed keys)
NICs
Availability sets
Azure virtual networks
Public IP addresses
Network security groups (NSGs)
Internal and public load balancers
Azure SQL databases and elastic pools

Additional Information : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resource-mover/tutorial-move-region-virtual-machines

Hope this helps!
Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 49,331 Microsoft Employee Moderator

@Kapil Gautam Typically the Prepare step in the move framework is what takes time. It depends on the size of disk and amount of data which customer has. However, VM data is replicated periodically to the target region and this doesn't affect the source VM. Source VM/app is still up and running meantime.

Please refer to doc on Prepare/Initiate Move steps for further details.

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Boe Dillard 666 Reputation points

2023-08-19T20:41:11.7766667+00:00

I hadn't even created any VMs yet and waited 4 hours to try and move it - I gave up and deleted the resource group. I hit delete and the resource group was gone in 1 minute.

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