Get the list of all VM's with disaster recovery activation status in Azure

Question

Hello,

Could you please help us to get solution in exporting a list of all VM's with Disaster Recovery status?

At the moment there is no resource graph query available to find DR activation status. So we have to check it manually on each VM.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi @Aivaras ,

maybe this helps to get started: https://charbelnemnom.com/how-to-find-the-recovery-services-vault-for-an-azure-vm-with-powershell/

Instead of querying one VM you can loop through your subscriptions and VMs with using the foreach cmdlet.

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Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Here is what I did. I had to do multiple loops to get all the info 😅

Script supports multiple subscriptions and recovery service vaults. I also query for a TAG on the VM. Output to a CSV file.

# Connect to Azure
Connect-AzAccount

# Get all Azure subscriptions
$subscriptions = Get-AzSubscription

# Create an array to store the results
$results = @()

# Loop through each subscription
foreach ($subscription in $subscriptions) {
    
    # Select the current subscription
    Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId $subscription.Id

# Get all vaults
$vaults = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault

# Loop through each vault
foreach ($vault in $vaults) {
    
    # Select the current vault
    Set-AzRecoveryServicesAsrVaultContext -Vault $vault

# Get all fabrics
$fabrics = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrFabric

# Loop through each fabric
foreach ($fabric in $fabrics) {
    
    # Get the asr container
    $container = Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrProtectionContainer -Fabric $fabric
    
    # Get protected Items
    $items= Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrReplicationProtectedItem -ProtectionContainer $container

# Loop through each item
foreach ($item in $items) {

        # Check if replication is enabled for the virtual machine
        if ($item -ne $null) {
        
        # Get VM object to be able to populate with VM parameters
        $vm = get-azvm | Where-Object { $_.Name -match $item.FriendlyName}
        
            $result = [PSCustomObject]@{
                "Subscription" = $subscription.Name
                "RecoveryVault" = $vault.Name
                "Fabric" = $fabric.Name
                "VirtualMachineName" = $item.FriendlyName
                "AppName" = $vm.Tags.AppName
                "ActiveLocation" = $item.ActiveLocation
                "ProtectionState" = $item.ProtectionState
                "ReplicationHealth" = $item.ReplicationHealth

            } 
            $results += $result
            } #end if

} #end VM loop

} #end fabric loop

} #end vault loop

} #end sub loop

# Output the results to a CSV file
$results | Export-Csv -Path "VirtualMachineReplicationStatus.csv" -NoTypeInformation

Answer 3

Hi @Aivaras
You can use Azure Powershell (CLI) on the azure portal, the sintax is just like:

Get-AzRecoveryServicesAsrEvent -Name "VmMonitoringEvent;9091897569816476200_84576304-bafc-4714-8ba6-197a5d09d84f"

reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.recoveryservices/get-azrecoveryservicesasrevent?view=azps-8.1.0#code-try-5

If you prefer here display all the cmdlets

reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.recoveryservices/?view=azps-8.1.0

Get in touch if you need more help with this issue.

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