Configuring Azure Site Recovery on Windows Server 2016 Essentials – Part 1 – Daniel Santos

Overview: One of the great features in Windows Server 2016 Essentials is Azure Site Recovery. ASR is the ability to replicate your entire server to Azure to disaster recovery. In this tutorial we will see how to prepare the environment and activate the ASR.

Before you start the ASR (Azure Site Recovery) wizard you must keep in mind the environment preparation that consists of:

Windows Server 2016 Essentials needs to be virtualized with Hyper-V host 2012 r2 or higher
Your Windows Server 2016 Essentials needs to be up-to-date
Hyper-V Host needs to be up-to-date
Verify firewall rule File and Print Sharing is enable in Hyper-V host
Verify that Windows Server Essentials Firewall rules WMI Async-in, WMI Dcom-in, and WMI-in
Join Hyper-V host in the Windows Server 2016 Essentials domain
When creating the virtual network and storage account in Azure using the Essentials wizard always use lowercase letters with no space and special characters
The name of virtual machines can not contain space and should use lowercase letters
Of course you will need a Windows Azure subscription
The storage account and virtual network must be in the same geographic region of Azure.

Let’s go step by step

1. Windows Server 2016 Essentials needs to be virtualized with Hyper-V host 2012 r2 or higher

2. Windows Server 2016 Essentials needs to be up-to-date with windows update

3. Hyper-V Host needs to be up-to-date with Windows update

4. Verify firewall rule File and Print sharing is enable in Hyper-V host

5. On Windows Server 2016 Essentials Open the Windows firewall with Advanced security and verify that the WMI Async-in, WMI Dcom-in, and WMI-in rules are released

6. Join Hyper-V host into the Windows Server Essentials 2016 domain

To know the name of the domain run the command nslookup (Since your dns is configured correctly will appear the name of the domain). Another way to find out is to open Active Directory users and computers