ASR - migrate vmware virtual machines to azure. Enable replication questions?
Enable replication :
step 3- if we are migrating VMware virtual machines what would we choose for "Machine Type" ( it says to choose physical machines but we are migrating VMware VMs which are not physical machines). Note- I have not installed a configuration server hence cannot see the options for this step. What option would we choose for VMware?
Would the steps on the link above require use to install a new configuration server if we are choosing to move physical servers as opposed to VMware VMs? Step 8 - Environment Details - during configuration server installation states to select "No" if these are physical servers. Since we choose "Yes" for VMware VMs because they are not physical server then we would have to create another configuration server???
Step 8 - what is " configure later to select the Azure network per machine"?,... how is this different from "configure now for selected machines"? Why would we choose to configure later?,... is this if we want to migrate some of the other VMware Vms to another vnet or another subnet in the same vnet? When this step says to
Step 8-"select the azure network per machine" does it mean to choose the same subnet?,... thinking this is easiest?
Is it better to migrate the database servers separately from the application servers during this step 8?,... in order to place the database servers in one subnet. If we did not care about this type of segmentation using subnet then it would be best to migrate an entire system at the same time selecting "Configure now for selected machines"?
Step 9- we have VMware VMs. Is there a VMware option since this example is using physical machines.
Step 10- Mobility server is installed on the VMware VM's -- just confirming again.
Step 11 - how do we know what kind of replication policy setting to configure? There is RPO(recovery point objective) threshold, Recovery Point retention in hrs., and app-consistent snapshot frequency---- How do we know what numbers to enter for the three options here?
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