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Dei_Underdog
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Sep 07, 2023

How to boot a AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Failback client on Azure VM.

Hello everyone out there! 

 

I am trying to setup the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for the production hosted on Azure Cloud.

I have created the VPN Connection between Azure and AWS VPCs and installed the AWS Replication Agent on every source instance/VM. 

 

The replication agent done it's job and completed the replication of Azure VMs to AWS. After replication the drill was successfully performed and created a recovery instance in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Console to perform the failback to original server or we can failback to another server which have same or more configurations than source server.

 

Now, AWS provide the failback agent in .iso format which is a live Linux image that acts as a connector to replicate the data from AWS to Destination Server.  But Azure doesn't support .iso to boot any VM as it uses .vhd or .vhdx as supported disc types.

 

I have tried creating VHD using various convertors (V2V Convertor, ISOBuster 2.0 etc,) and Hyper-V by creating a blank VHD and then mounted that ISO on Hyper-V VM.

But the problem is that it is a live image that will act only as a connector and credentials verification to check the replication server on AWS, and we can not install it as a OS. 

 

I want to use this image as bootable VHD that can provision an Azure VM and perform failback on that Virtual Machine.

Please help me in this event. 

 

Regards,

Rahul Somra

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