Azure: Moving from ASM to ARM with ASR (Part 7) - Failover

Failover

In this blog we will do the actual failover.

Tip: Before we start it’s advisable to check what VM sizes ASR will provide for our target VMs, here the DS2V2 was resized to A5:

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Test Failover

Running Test Failovers allow to do some pre checking without interrupting the production environment and gives us good indication on potential issues.

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Test failovers consume resources, so we should clean up the test failover environments if we don’t want large Azure bills at the end of the month 

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and confirm we want to delete

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Unplanned failover

Now instead of selecting test failover plan, we choose unplanned failover were the old environment should be brought down and start the ARM VMs.

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Now hold on to your seat, cross your fingers and follow the progress in the portal:

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If we configured everything well, we should see that everything is now running in the ARM model:

(don’t mind the shutdown problem, this behaviour is actually the result of the failed VM extentions test on ASM)

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Checking the new resource group shows that all components are in place

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Overview

This article is part of a series, check for the overview here:  Azure: Moving form ASM to ARM with ASR (TOC)