ASM to ARM with ASR – Part II

In this blogpost we will show how to enable the recovery vault and how to install the process server.

Create the Recovery Vault
In the portal, search for “recovery” and select following highlighted section:

fill in the details:

Open communication ports
Before we continue, we need to make sure all required communication ports (443 & 9443) are open on all source resources so that they can communicate and replicate with the process server. These ports need to be open on:
– ACL’s (if any)
– Network Security Groups (if any)
– Windows Firewall (enabled by default)

Install the process server
As soon as this is in place we can start with the deployment of the Process server itself, depending on the workload you will need to select a VM size that is appropriate to handle the load.
For small scopes like this POC, a minimum is 2 vCPU and 4GB of memory.
For my server I will select the new A4_v2 as this is the cheapest server with 4 cores (ASR Process server can be pretty CPU intensive)
I already have a management network in ARM where I will deploy this server to, in a later phase we will connect this VNET with the VNET in ASM so that we have direct communication over the Azure Network backbone. (What we call VNET Peering)

Go to the network adaptor settings of the process server and change IP assignment setting to fixed:

download files
In The Azure Portal, go to your recovery vault -> Configuration Server -> Add Server blade to download the software and registration keys you will need during deployment: