Migrating Azure VM to a different location

Question

I have an Azure VM with a managed disk (which is not located in any storage account).

The VM is located in West US while it's resource group is located in West Europe.
I want to move the VM to West Europe as well.
Is there a way to move this VM to another location without generalizing it?

I saw that there's something called AzCopy, But I don't think that I can use it because my VM's disk is managed and it's not located in a storage account.

I can't use the recovery vaults because the resource group of the VM is located in the region where I want to move my VM to.
It shows the following error when I try to create a recovery vault in the same region:

You cannot protect VMs from the same region as of the vault or vault’s resource group. In the event of a datacenter disruption, the vault or resource group also might not be available. Create (or use) a vault in a different region to protect these VMs.

And even If I could create the Vault, I still wouldn't find my VMs (to replicate) because they are in a different region than it's resource group.

Answer 1

You can use Azure Site Recovery

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-tutorial-migrate

In addition to using the Azure Site Recovery service to manage and orchestrate disaster recovery of on-premises machines and Azure VMs for the purposes of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR), you can also use Site Recovery to manage migration of Azure VMs to a secondary region. To migrate Azure VMs, you enable replication for them, and fail them over from the primary region to the secondary region of your choice.