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Azure PowerShell error: The subscription is not entitled to use the resource

31st March 2015 0 Comments

This is an error I’ve seen quite a few times. Every time I see the error it takes me a while to remember what the issue is, hopefully this post will help me remember one of the causes. I had successfully authenticated to my Azure Subscription using Add-AzureAccount and  ran the following to create a new Site Recovery Vault: The error returned was: New-AzureSiteRecoveryVault : Operation failed. ClientRequestId: ForbiddenError: The subscription is not entitled to use the resource At line:1 char:2 + New-AzureSiteRecoveryVault -Location $Region -Name “RecoveryVault” + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureSiteRecoveryVault], SerializationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.RecoveryServices.CreateAzureSiteRecoveryVault…
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Azure Site Recovery now works with larger than 127GB OS Drive

27th March 2015 0 Comments

We use Azure Site Recovery for both protecting customer VMs and as a migration tool when moving VMs to Microsoft Azure. There have been a number of hoops to jump through to ensure a VM can replicate. On of which is we have come across a few, customer VMs with operating system disks larger than 127GB. Generally not a lot more, but just a bit larger. Most commonly this is RDS servers with a lot of user profile data, – now we use technologies such as user profile disks, but this wasn’t around when these VMs were created. Microsoft announced…
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Azure, Site Recovery