Azure Resource Mover
To move resources across regions or subscription, you select the resources that you want to move. Resource Mover validates those resources, and resolves any dependencies they have on other resources. If there are dependencies, you have a couple of options:
- Move the dependent resources to the target region.
- Don’t move the dependent resources, but use equivalent resources in the target region instead.
Exercise: In this exercise we will have a look, how to move the resource from one region to another region. Please refer the below steps.
I already have one virtual machine in East US region and now I will moving this VM along with its dependent resource to any of the secondary region using Azure Resource Mover.
Type Azure Resource Mover in azure portal search bar and click on Get Started now provide the source and destination subscription details and Region as below image and click next.
click on Select Resource, now choose the resources which you want to move to other region and then click on next and then click on proceed, this will validate if any dependent resource are missing to move into new region.
Now you would need to validate the dependencies, to do this click on Validate dependencies.
Once you validate the dependencies you will be notified if any dependent resource is missing in my case, I missed to configure to move the NIC so now I will add this NIC.
Click on Add Dependencies.
Once all the dependent resources are added and validate then we will prepare for the move to do that select the resource and click on Prepare.
Please refer the below link for region move process.
Once preparation is done, we can click on initiate move to finally move into new region.
now we can click on Commit move.
Please note we are unable to move the VM as this is required to first commit the dependent resource and then move the VM.
Now you will notice once the dependent resource are committed, the error which was coming for VM is gone now.
We can now prepare, initiate and move the VM alone.
And once we successfully moved VM and its dependent resources then we can delete the resource from source region.
