About Azure Site Recovery deployment planner

This guide outlines the capabilities of the Azure Site Recovery deployment planner.

Note

The current version of Deployment planner tool v2.5 provides cost estimation for virtual machines replicating to Managed Disks.

Get virtual machine lists

You need a list of the VMs to be profiled. Use the GetVMList mode of the deployment planner tool to generate the list of VMs present on multiple Hyper-V hosts in a single command. For more information, see Get the VM list for profiling Hyper-V VMs and VMware VMs.

Profile VMs

In profiling mode, the deployment planner tool connects to each of the Hyper-V and VMware hosts to collect performance data about the VMs. For more information, see Profile Hyper-V VMs and VMware VMs.

Generate a cost report

The tool generates a macro-enabled Microsoft Excel file (XLSM file) as the report output. It summarizes all the deployment recommendations. For more information, see generate cost reports for Hyper-V VMs and VMware VMs.

Get throughput

To estimate the throughput that Azure Site Recovery can achieve from on-premises to Azure during replication, run the tool in GetThroughput mode. For more information, see get throughput for Hyper-V VMs and VMware VMs.

Analyze the Azure Site Recovery deployment planner report

The summary worksheet provides an overview of the profiled environment. For more information, see Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for a Hyper-V to Azure scenario and VMware to Azure scenario.

Analyze the cost estimation report

The Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner Report provides the cost estimation summary in Recommendations (Hyper-V and VMware) sheets and detailed cost analysis in the Cost Estimation sheet. It has the detailed cost analysis per VM.

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