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Azure – Restore a VM from your Az Recovery Services Vault

Posted by robd on September 09, 2022
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Hello,

More DR stuff for me, I needed to restore a VM from Recovery Vault, heres how I did it:

Open PowerShell and connect to Azure:

Connect-AzAccount

Lets get started, as before, theres lots to change so READ it carefully:

#Find your vault and resouce Group, CHANGE FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT
$vault = get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Name "LinuxVault" -ResourceGroupName "LinuxRG"
Set-AzRecoveryServicesAsrVaultContext -Vault $vault

#Set the fabric of your vault, CHANGE FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT
$PrimaryFabric = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrFabric -name asr-a2a-default-northeurope

#Set these
$PrimaryProtContainer = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrProtectionContainer -Fabric $PrimaryFabric -Name "asr-a2a-default-northeurope-container"

#set your network, CHANGE FOR YOUR ENVIRONMEN
$TFOVNet = Get-AzVirtualNetwork -Name uks-kil-dr-test-vnet
$TFONetwork= $TFOVnet.Id

#Here we get the VM and start the recovery, CHANGE FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT
$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-1"
$TFOJob1 = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem -AzureVMNetworkId $TFONetwork -Direction PrimaryToRecovery

#Same but a different VM
$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-2"
$TFOJob2 = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem -AzureVMNetworkId $TFONetwork -Direction PrimaryToRecovery

#Same but a different VM
$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-3"
$TFOJob3 = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem -AzureVMNetworkId $TFONetwork -Direction PrimaryToRecovery

#Same but a different VM
$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-4"
$TFOJob4 = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem -AzureVMNetworkId $TFONetwork -Direction PrimaryToRecovery

#Same but a different VM
$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "DC-Server-1"
$TFOJob5 = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem -AzureVMNetworkId $TFONetwork -Direction PrimaryToRecovery

 

Once you’re done with you’re restored VMs should clean up your work if you need too (I was using them to test DR so wanted to deleted them after):

#Get teh VM you cloned and bin it off, CHANGE the VM name FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT
$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-1"
$Job_TFOCleanup = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverCleanupJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem

$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-2"
$Job_TFOCleanup = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverCleanupJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem

$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-3"
$Job_TFOCleanup = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverCleanupJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem

$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "Linux-Server-4"
$Job_TFOCleanup = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverCleanupJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem

$ReplicationProtectedItem = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $PrimaryProtContainer -FriendlyName "DC-Server-1"
$Job_TFOCleanup = Start-AzRecoveryServicesAsrTestFailoverCleanupJob -ReplicationProtectedItem $ReplicationProtectedItem

 

 

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