“Azure Site Recovery Migration: Troubleshooting Errors During Classic to Modern Transition”
Classic to Modern Azure Site Recovery Migration: Deployment Experience and Key Challenges Migrating from Classic Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to the Modern ASR Appliance architecture introduces several operational differences. During a recent migration, we encountered practical deployment challenges that are worth documenting for others performing similar transitions. OVF Deployment – Unexpected Boot Delay The Modern ASR Appliance was downloaded as an OVF template and deployed into the VMware vCenter environment. Deployment itself was straightforward: • Import OVF • Assign network configuration • Complete virtual hardware mapping However, an unexpected issue arose during the first power-on. The virtual machine took approximately: 30 to 40 minutes to boot This behaviour initially suggested: • Resource bottleneck • OVF corruption • Guest OS issue After reviewing multiple technical forums and blogs, a useful recommendation emerged: Power on the appliance directly from the ESXi host in...