Merge pull request #314304 from Jeronika-MS/v2anote

Added note about V2A classic experience retirement

Author: Carolyn135

articles/site-recovery/deploy-vmware-azure-replication-appliance-modernized.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Deploy Azure Site Recovery Replication Appliance - Modernized
 description: This article describes how to replicate appliance for VMware disaster recovery to Azure with Azure Site Recovery - Modernized.
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 01/24/2025
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
 author: Jeronika-MS
 ms.custom:
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ You deploy an on-premises replication appliance when you use [Azure Site Recover
 - The replication appliance coordinates communications between on-premises VMware and Azure. It also manages data replication.
 - [Learn more](vmware-azure-architecture-modernized.md) about the Azure Site Recovery replication appliance components and processes.
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 ## Prepare Azure account
 
 To create and register the Azure Site Recovery replication appliance, you need an Azure account with:

articles/site-recovery/exclude-disks-replication.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Exclude disks from replication with Azure Site Recovery
 description: How to exclude disks from replication to Azure with Azure Site Recovery.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 02/11/2026
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
 ms.reviewer: v-gajeronika
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This article describes how to exclude disks from replication during disaster rec
 - You want to save storage and network resources by not replicating data that you don't need.
 - Azure VMs reached Site Recovery replication limits.
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
 
 ## Supported scenarios
 

articles/site-recovery/how-to-enable-replication-proximity-placement-groups.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ author: Jeronika-MS
 ms.topic: how-to
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.custom: devx-track-azurepowershell
-ms.date: 04/26/2025
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 # Customer intent: "As an IT administrator, I want to replicate Azure virtual machines in a proximity placement group to another region using Site Recovery, so that I can ensure continuity and reduce downtime for latency-sensitive applications in case of a regional failure."
 ---
 
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ This article describes how to replicate, fail over, and fail back Azure virtual
 
 When virtual machines are deployed within the same proximity placement group, they're physically located as close as possible to each other. Proximity placement groups are useful to address the requirements of latency-sensitive workloads.
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 ## Disaster recovery with proximity placement groups
 
 In a typical scenario, you might have your virtual machines running in a proximity placement group to avoid the network latency between the tiers of your application. Although this approach can provide optimal network latency for your application, you might want to protect these applications by using Azure Site Recovery for any region-level failure. 

articles/site-recovery/includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+ms.assetid: 
+title: include file
+description: include file with notes on the retirement of V2A classic experience
+author: Jeronika-MS
+ms.author: v-gajeronika
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
+ms.topic:  include
+ms.service: azure-site-recovery
+
+---
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> The classic experience to protect VMware machines by using ASR has retired on March 30, 2026. [Learn more](/azure/site-recovery/vmware-physical-azure-classic-deprecation). Switch to the [modernized experience](/azure/site-recovery/move-from-classic-to-modernized-vmware-disaster-recovery) to avoid service interruption.

articles/site-recovery/move-from-classic-to-modernized-vmware-disaster-recovery.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Move from classic to modernized VMware disaster recovery
 description: Learn about the architecture, necessary infrastructure, and FAQs about moving your VMware or Physical machine replications from classic to modernized protection architecture.
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: concept-article
-ms.date: 03/26/2025
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 author: Jeronika-MS
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
 ms.custom: engagement-fy23
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ ms.custom: engagement-fy23
 
 This article provides information about the architecture, necessary infrastructure, and FAQs about moving your VMware or Physical machine replications from [classic](./vmware-azure-architecture.md) to [modernized](./vmware-azure-architecture-modernized.md) protection architecture. With this capability to migrate, you can successfully transfer your replicated items from a configuration server to an Azure Site Recovery replication appliance. This migration is guided by a smart replication mechanism, which ensures that complete initial replication isn't performed again for noncritical replicated items, and only the differential data is transferred. 
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 > [!NOTE]
 > Recovery plans won't be migrated and will need to be created again in the modernized Recovery Services vault.  
 

articles/site-recovery/site-recovery-deployment-planner.md

@@ -5,14 +5,16 @@ author: Jeronika-MS
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: concept-article
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
-ms.date: 12/18/2025
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 # Customer intent: "As a VMware administrator, I want to utilize the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner, so that I can accurately assess bandwidth and storage requirements for disaster recovery to Azure and optimize my virtual machine replication process."
 ---
 
 # About the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware to Azure
 
 This article is the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner user guide for VMware to Azure production deployments.
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 ## Overview
 
 Before you begin to protect any VMware vSphere virtual machines (VMs) by using Azure Site Recovery, allocate sufficient bandwidth, based on your daily data-change rate, to meet your desired recovery point objective (RPO). Be sure to deploy the right number of configuration servers and process servers on-premises.

articles/site-recovery/site-recovery-manage-registration-and-protection.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: This article describes how to unregister servers from a Site Recove
 author: Jeronika-MS
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 03/25/2025
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
 
 # Customer intent: "As an IT administrator managing disaster recovery, I want to unregister servers and disable protection for virtual machines and physical servers, so that I can effectively manage and streamline our backup processes and reduce unnecessary costs."
@@ -127,9 +127,10 @@ Hyper-V hosts that aren't managed by VMM are gathered into a Hyper-V site. Remov
         popd
 ```
 
-
 ## Disable protection for a VMware VM or physical server (VMware to Azure)
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 1. In **Protected Items** > **Replicated Items**, right-click the machine > **Disable replication**.
 2. In **Disable replication** page, select one of these options:
     - **Disable replication and remove (recommended)** - This option remove the replicated item from Azure Site Recovery and the replication for the machine is stopped. Replication configuration on Configuration Server is cleaned up and Site Recovery billing for this protected server is stopped. Note that this option can only be used when Configuration Server is in connected state.

articles/site-recovery/site-recovery-vmware-deployment-planner-analyze-report.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ author: Jeronika-MS
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: concept-article
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
-ms.date: 01/12/2026
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 ms.custom: sfi-image-nochange
 
 # Customer intent: "As an IT administrator, I want to analyze the Deployment Planner report for VMware disaster recovery to Azure, so that I can determine the necessary resources and bandwidth required to ensure a successful migration and maintain an effective disaster recovery strategy."
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ This article discusses the sheets contained in the Excel report generated by Azu
 
 To generate a cost report, see [Run the Deployment Planner and generate a cost report for VMware disaster recovery](site-recovery-vmware-deployment-planner-run.md).
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 ## On-premises summary
 
 The On-premises summary worksheet provides an overview of the profiled VMware environment.

articles/site-recovery/vmware-azure-architecture-modernized.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: VMware VM disaster recovery architecture in Azure Site Recovery - Moderni
 description: This article provides an overview of components and architecture used when setting up disaster recovery of on-premises VMware VMs to Azure with Azure Site Recovery - Modernized
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: concept-article
-ms.date: 03/13/2025
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
 author: Jeronika-MS
 # Customer intent: "As a VMware administrator, I want to configure disaster recovery for on-premises VMs to Azure, so that I can ensure business continuity and minimize downtime in the event of system failures."
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ author: Jeronika-MS
 
 This article describes the architecture and processes used when you deploy disaster recovery replication, failover, and recovery of VMware virtual machines (VMs) between an on-premises VMware site and Azure using the Modernized VMware/Physical machine protection experience.
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
+
 >[!NOTE]
 > Ensure you create a new Recovery Services vault for setting up the ASR replication appliance. Don't use an existing vault.
 

articles/site-recovery/vmware-azure-architecture.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: VMware VM disaster recovery architecture in Azure Site Recovery - Classic
 description: This article provides an overview of components and architecture used when setting up disaster recovery of on-premises VMware VMs to Azure with Azure Site Recovery - Classic
 ms.service: azure-site-recovery
 ms.topic: concept-article
-ms.date: 02/13/2026
+ms.date: 04/06/2026
 ms.author: v-gajeronika
 ms.reviewer: v-gajeronika
 author: Jeronika-MS
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ This article describes the architecture and processes you use when you deploy di
 
 For details about modernized architecture, [see this article](vmware-azure-architecture-modernized.md).
 
+[!INCLUDE [vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md](./includes/vmware-to-azure-classic-experience-retirement-note.md)]
 
 ## Architectural components