Manage resources created for the virtual machine move

  • Article
  • 01/13/2025

This article describes how to manage resources that are created explicitly by Azure Resource Mover to facilitate the virtual machine move process.

After moving virtual machines across regions, there are a number of resources created by Resource Mover that should be cleaned up manually.

Delete resources created for virtual machine move

Manually delete the move collection, and Site Recovery resources created for the virtual machine move.

  1. Review the resources in resource group ResourceMoverRG-<sourceregion>-<target-region>-<metadataRegionShortName>.

  2. Check that the virtual machine and all other source resources in the move collection have been moved/deleted. This ensures that there are no pending resources using them.

  3. Delete these resources.

    • The move collection name is movecollection-<sourceregion>-<target-region>-<metadata-region>.
    • The cache storage account name is resmovecache<guid>
    • The vault name is ResourceMove-<sourceregion>-<target-region>-GUID.

Next steps

Try moving a virtual machine to another region with Resource Mover.