Fail to register another vault for a Hyper-V server

Scenario

The previous Site Recovery vault was deleted form the Azure and the Hyper-V was uninstalled the Azure Site Recovery Provider. When you register a Hyper-V server with an Azure Site Recovery vault, you get the following error message.

The server is already registered in vault. Either select the registration key associated with this vault, or unregister the server from and then register it with a different vault. Learn more on how to unregister the server from the previous vault: http://aka.ms/unregisterservers.

Cause

The previous Azure Site Recovery Vault is still remained in the registry of the Hyper-V Server

Solution

1. Cancel the installation.

2. Launch Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Azure Site Recovery.

3. Delete the Azure Site Recovery key.

4. Uninstall and reinstall the provider and agent setup.

Reference:

Vault registration fails with "already registered" error in Azure Site Recovery

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Using Microsoft solutions to maintain Business Continuity

There is a new Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) course, Microsoft Business Continuity, which is talked about maintaining Business Continuity by Microsoft solutions. This course was hosted by Matt McSpirit, Senior Technical Product Manager and Symon Perriman, Senior Technical Evangelist. It included 4 modules in this course which are High Availability, Data Protection, Site Recovery and Site Recovery for Heterogeneous Environments. It covered some Microsoft products and features which are based on Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Microsoft Azure. like Windows Failover Clustering, System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), Microsoft Azure Site Recovery and Image Scout. Matt and Symon did some demonstrations to use these above products or features to maintain Business Continuity for Hyper-V and VMware environment.

If you are interested, please watch this MVA course.

Microsoft Business Continuity

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Update on VMware platform to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (Microsoft Migration Accelerator)

As previous post, I mentioned VMware platform to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. This information is talked on Optimizing Your Datacenter with Windows Server, System Center, and Microsoft Azure by Matt McSpirit. In these few days of TechEd Europe 2014, I had a chance to chat with Matt McSpirit to get more information about VMware platform to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. First of all, we need a process server. The process server is a key point in this process. It handles replication and conversion of virtual machines between VMware platform and Microsoft Azure. VMware tools won't be un-installed on virtual machines during replication and conversion because virtual machines will failover to both platform. There is no change in virtual machines. The solution isn't like Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) because MVMC converts virtual machines from VMware platform to Hyper-V platform. VMware tools will be uninstalled on virtual machines because we don't need to fail back to VMware platform. MVMC doesn't handle replication. This is the basic concept of VMware platform to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery.

Updated on 15-Nov-2014
The solution name is Microsoft Migration Accelerator. It's on preview state. This product is based on InMage Scout. In preview state, It provided one-way replication from VMware to Microsoft Azure. Migration Accelerator doesn't support VMware only. It also supports physical server, AWS and Hyper-V to Microsoft Azure.

Image 1 from VMware to Microsoft Migration: Solutions Overview PowerPoint

To protect servers on on-premisses environment, we need to install an agent named Mobility Service on servers. Then, deploy process server on on-premisses environment to collect Mobility Service and communicate with Configuration Server and Master Target which are VMs are installed in Microsoft Azure.

Image 2 from VMware to Microsoft Migration: Solutions Overview PowerPoint

We can use Microsoft Migration Accelerator portal to discover servers. Then, install an agent to servers and failover servers to Microsoft Azure. For more information, please watch the following TechEd sessions.

More information
VMware to Microsoft Migration: Solutions Overview CDP-B247

Microsoft Migration Accelerator and Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Using InMage Scout CDP-B328

When will this solution be available?

This solution will be available in 2015 so let wait and see it.

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VMware platform to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery information in TechEd Europe 2014 (Microsoft Migration Accelerator)

This is the first day of TechEd Europe 2014 except pre-conference. I joined some sessions and get some latest information. One of interested information is Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. The up coming update of Microsoft Azure Site Recovery will support VMware platform. Yes, It's VMware platform. Virtual Machines which are installed in VMware platform can be replicated and then convert to Microsoft Hyper-V platform in Microsoft Azure to provide DR solution. It's amazing for customers which are using VMware platform.

For more information, please read Update on VMware platform to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (Microsoft Migration Accelerator).

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