Today a short post on Microsoft’s DR solution Azure Site Recovery (ASR). ASR provides automation and replication options, and allows you to build a DR solution for both Microsoft and VMware based virtual environments. In a VMware ASR scenario InMage Scout is used, implementing a guest OS level replication agent. This replication agent is automatically installed when a virtual machine is added as replication source in the Azure portal.
During the initial configuration of a Linux virtual machine I encountered the following error:
Installation of the mobility service failed on the source machine with error code EP0870.
Microsoft recommends the following solution: Disable protection and retry the operation after ensuring that all prerequisites for push installation of the mobility service are complete. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=525131 for push installation guidance.
For Linux virtual machines the following prerequisites are applicable:
- Use a supported Linux guest OS distribution and version;
- /etc/hosts files on protected machines should contain entries that map the local host name to IP addresses associated with all network adapters;
- SSH and SFTP are both available on the protected virtual machine;
- Use a supported file system (for example EXT3, EXT4, ReiserFS, LVM3, additional file systems are supported);
For full details please look here.
Although all requirements were met, the guest OS agent could not be installed on the virtual machine. The /var/log/messages didn’t give any additional clues. Fortunately it’s possible to do a manual installation of the guest agent as well, during the installation an error popped up which provided the reason for the failure:
At least 2 GB of free space is required on the root (“/”) partition. After increasing the partition, installation continued as expected and the virtual machine was added as a replicated item in Azure Site Recovery.
