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Copper Contributor

Mar 11, 2020

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Azure Site Recovery failback with VMware EFI Vms ?

Hello, I have a question about Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and I could not find an appropriate community and space, but if there is one, feel free to point me to it. I'm planning to deploy ASR ...

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Nicolas Wipfli
Mar 12, 2020
Hello,

Someone from Microsoft France pointed me to the https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4531426/update-rollup-42-for-azure-site-recovery which confirms that failback is supported.

Azure Site Recovery now supports test failover, failover & failback of VMware and Azure machines with UEFI layout

So, this question is answered.

Regards
Nicolas

Nicolas Wipfli

Copper Contributor

Mar 12, 2020

Hello,

Someone from Microsoft France pointed me to the https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4531426/update-rollup-42-for-azure-site-recovery which confirms that failback is supported.

Azure Site Recovery now supports test failover, failover & failback of VMware and Azure machines with UEFI layout

So, this question is answered.

Regards

Nicolas

SimBur2365

Brass Contributor

Oct 10, 2022

One thing to be aware of is that Secure Boot is not supported for VMware / Physical VMs (as of October '22). We've just set up a proof of concept and found the agent installation fails with this configuration (as is mentioned in the support matrix). Secure Boot had been enabled to support enabling 'Device Guard' on Windows 2016+ server OS.

UEFI with Secure Boot disabled = supported.

UEFI with Secure Boot enabled = not supported.

You can run msinfo32 to get Secure Boot status, or in a script use Confirm-SecureBootUEFI.