Azure Site recovery clearing locks
Recently had an issue in re-protecting VM's following failover to a secondary region. Tried everything and couldn't resolve eventually after speaking with Azure support i ran the below script and resolved the issue with locks not clearing on failed over VM's cls $subscriptionId = Read-Host 'What is your Azure Subscription ID?' $rgName = Read-Host 'Specify the name of the Resource group in which your VM is located' $vmName = Read-Host 'Specify the name of the VM' # Sign-in with Azure account credentials Login-AzureRmAccount # Select Azure Subscription Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId # Remove any locks $locks = Get-AzureRmResourceLock -ResourceGroupName $rgName -ResourceName $vmName -ResourceType Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines if ($locks -ne $null -and $locks.Count -ge 0){ $canDelete = Read-Host 'The VM has locks that could prevent cleanup of Azure Site Recovery stale links left from previous protection. Do you want the locks deleted to ensure cleanup goes smoothly? Reply with Y/N.' if ($canDelete.ToLower() -eq "y"){ Foreach ($lock in $locks) { $lockId = $lock.LockId Remove-AzureRmResourceLock -LockId $lockId -Force Write-Host "Removed Lock $lockId for $vmName" } } } $linksResourceId = 'https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/' + $subscriptionId + '/providers/Microsoft.Resources/links' $vmId = '/subscriptions/' + $subscriptionId + '/resourceGroups/' + $rgName + '/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/' + $vmName + '/' Write-Host $("Deleting links for $vmId using resourceId: $linksResourceId") $links = @(Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $linksResourceId| Where-Object {$_.Properties.sourceId -match $vmId -and $_.Properties.targetId.ToLower().Contains("microsoft.recoveryservices/vaults")}) Write-Host "Links to be deleted" $links #Delete all links which are of type Foreach ($link in $links) { Write-Host $("Deleting link " + $link.Name) Remove-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $link.ResourceId -Force } $links = @(Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $linksResourceId| Where-Object {$_.Properties.sourceId -match $vmId -and $_.Properties.targetId.ToLower().Contains("/protecteditemarmid/")}) Write-Host "Cross subscription Links to be deleted" $links #Delete all links which are of type Foreach ($link in $links) { Write-Host $("Deleting link " + $link.Name) Remove-AzureRmResource -ResourceId $link.ResourceId -Force } Write-Host $("Deleted all links ")