Azure Site Recovery New Experience Preview

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Azure Site Recovery New Experience Preview

Bechir 291

Hello,
Has anyone here already tested ASR with the new preview experience ? I've seen in MS documentation that private links are not supported yet, therefore no expressroute for ASR also I think so ? Could anybody confirm this ?

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risolis 7,116

Hello @Bechir

Thank you for your great concern about ASR Preview feature.

I would like to share relevant details about this feature.... So, let me start by mentioning them down below:

1-Review ASR supported Matrix
2-You can either use PrivateEndpoint or ER(ExpressRoute) / You can use IPsec VPN(Failback) but from Azure to on-premises not the other way around since it will be via internet.
3-Review encryption versions/cipher suites used by TLS/SSL.
4-Caching storage usage/Virtual Disk
5-If possible to avoid any Asymmetric routing path issue,Proxy device in the middle or encryption policies on the FW.
6-Switching over from ASR’s replication appliances
7-Hostname consistency as well as the DNS hostname resolution.
8-Plan you networking settings as well as App management groups
9-IOPS capacity and VM size settings
10-You can use multiple ASR replication appliances for load balancing
11-Plan your quota usage in order to avoid the replication progress to stop due to lack of quota capacity like numbers of Virtual Disks, CPU's and so on.
12-if possible as well as to monitor traffic replication rate in order not to go beyond the rate limit capacity which is 2TB per day.

I hope that info can be helpful in order to start with confidence your project.

Looking forward to your feedback,

Cheers

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Bechir 291 Reputation points

2022-09-08T14:33:06.08+00:00

Hello,
Sorry but Preview supports only Microsoft Peering, not Private Peering/PrivateEnpoints.
Therefore, if we have not Microsoft Peering we should use ASR Classic to go via Expressroute (Private Peering). That's all.
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 25,856 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-09-08T14:40:35.293+00:00

Yes, you're right.
risolis 7,116 Reputation points

2022-09-09T03:20:05.447+00:00

Hello @Bechir and @SadiqhAhmed-MSFT

Thank you for your response.

But it is funny because we are using the preview feature as well... I do have the option for endpoints but this has to be done before protecting and replicating VM's data so please see down below:

Looking forward to your feedback,

Cheers

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Bechir 291 Reputation points

2022-09-09T20:40:01.01+00:00

Currently Private Links are not supported, it will be in GA.
In MS documentation we could see that's not supported with the preview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/deploy-vmware-azure-replication-appliance-preview
I've tested it and it did not work then I've contacted Microsoft support and MS folks have told we should wait GA.
So, even if we have endpoint in the portal, it doesn't work currently.
risolis 7,116 Reputation points

2022-09-10T04:36:01.007+00:00
Bechir 291 Reputation points

2022-09-10T19:16:32.553+00:00

Yes that is what I said from the beginning
risolis 7,116 Reputation points

2022-09-10T20:01:56.963+00:00

Did you enable DNS forwarder to resolve the Azure service public DNS zone?

Thx
Bechir 291 Reputation points

2022-09-19T18:15:12.713+00:00

DNS has nothing to do. Preview does not support Private Endpoint currently ... I've switched to Classic. That's all the story.
risolis 7,116 Reputation points

2022-09-19T18:25:35.4+00:00

Understood....

It could have been very nice to see that proof-of-concept but it is ok.

Have a good one!

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