Recover from accidental deletion of resource bridge virtual machine
In this article, you learn how to recover the Azure Arc resource bridge connection into a working state in disaster scenarios such as accidental deletion. In such cases, the connection between on-premises infrastructure and Azure is lost and any operations performed through Arc will fail.
Recover the Arc resource bridge in case of virtual machine deletion
To recover from Arc resource bridge VM deletion, you need to deploy a new resource bridge with the same resource ID as the current resource bridge using the following steps.
Prerequisites
The disaster recovery script must be run from the same folder where the config (.yaml) files are present. The config files are present on the machine used to run the script to deploy Arc resource bridge.
The machine being used to run the script must have bidirectional connectivity to the Arc resource bridge VM on port 6443 (Kubernetes API server) and 22 (SSH), and outbound connectivity to the Arc resource bridge VM on port 443 (HTTPS).
Recover Arc resource bridge from a Windows machine
Copy the Azure region and resource IDs of the Arc resource bridge, custom location, and SCVMM management server Azure resources.
Download this script and update the following section in the script using the same information as the original resources in Azure.
$location = <Azure region of the original Arc resource bridge> $applianceSubscriptionId = <subscription-id> $applianceResourceGroupName = <resource-group-name> $applianceName = <resource-bridge-name> $customLocationSubscriptionId = <subscription-id> $customLocationResourceGroupName = <resource-group-name> $customLocationName = <custom-location-name> $vmmserverSubscriptionId = <subscription-id> $vmmserverResourceGroupName = <resource-group-name> $vmmserverName= <SCVMM-name-in-azure>
Run the updated script from the same location where the config YAML files are stored after the initial onboarding. This is most likely the same folder from where you ran the initial onboarding script unless the config files were moved later to a different location. Provide the inputs as prompted.
Once the script is run successfully, the old Resource Bridge is recovered, and the connection is re-established to the existing Azure-enabled SCVMM resources.
Next steps
Troubleshoot Azure Arc resource bridge issues
If the recovery steps mentioned above are unsuccessful in restoring Arc resource bridge to its original state, try one of the following channels for support:
- Get answers from Azure experts through Microsoft Q&A.
- Connect with @AzureSupport, the official Microsoft Azure account for improving customer experience. Azure Support connects the Azure community to answers, support, and experts.
- Open an Azure support request.