Configure Mobility Service Proxy Settings for Azure to Azure Disaster Recovery
This article provides guidance on customizing networking configurations on the target Azure virtual machine (VM) when you're replicating and recovering Azure VMs from one region to another, using Azure Site Recovery.
The purpose of this document is to provide steps to configure Proxy Settings for Azure Site Recovery Mobility Service in the Azure to Azure Disaster Recovery scenario.
Proxies are network gateways that allow/disallow network connections to endpoints. Typically a proxy is a machine outside the client machine that tries to access network endpoints. A bypass list allows the client to make connections directly to the endpoints without going through the proxy. A username and password may be optionally set for a proxy by network admins so that only authenticated clients can use proxy.
Note
Azure Site Recovery doesn't support PAC files as a proxy.
Before you start
Learn how Site Recovery provides disaster recovery for this scenario. Understand the networking guidance when you're replicating and recovering Azure VMs from one region to another, using Azure Site Recovery. Ensure your proxy is set up appropriately based on the needs of your organization.
Configure the Mobility Service
Mobility Service supports unauthenticated proxies only. It provides two ways to enter proxy details for communication with Site Recovery endpoints.
Method 1: Auto detection
Mobility Service auto detects the proxy settings from environment settings or Internet Explorer settings (Windows only) during enable replication.
- Windows OS: During Enable Replication, Mobility Service detects the proxy settings as configured in Internet Explorer for Local System user. To set up proxy for Local System account, an administrator may use
psexec
to launch a command prompt and then Internet Explorer. The proxy settings are configured as environment variableshttp_proxy
andno_proxy
. - Linux OS: The proxy settings are configured in /etc/profile or /etc/environment as environment variables
http_proxy
andno_proxy
. - Auto-detected proxy settings: The auto-detected proxy settings are saved to Mobility Service proxy config file
ProxyInfo.conf
The default location of ProxyInfo.conf is: - Windows: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery\Config\ProxyInfo.conf - Linux: /usr/local/InMage/config/ProxyInfo.conf
Method 2: Provide custom application proxy settings
In this case, the customer provides custom application proxy settings in Mobility Service config file ProxyInfo.conf. This method allows customers to provide proxy only for Mobility Service or a different proxy for Azure Site Recovery Mobility Service than a proxy (or no proxy) for rest of the applications on the machine. Check whether the file C:\ProgramData\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery\Config\ProxyInfo.conf
has any proxy entry. In case the file doesn't exist, create one.
Proxy template
ProxyInfo.conf contains the following template:
[proxy]
Address=http://1.2.3.4
Port=5678
BypassList=hypervrecoverymanager.windowsazure.com,login.microsoftonline.com,blob.core.windows.net.
The BypassList
parameter doesn't support wildcards like *.windows.net
, however, you can use windows.net
to bypass.
Next steps
- Read networking guidance for replicating Azure VMs.
- Deploy disaster recovery by replicating Azure VMs.