What are the Key Site Recovery Features?
- Centralized Management: Easily set up and manage replication, failover, and failback from a single location in the Azure portal.
- Azure VM Replication: Enable disaster recovery for Azure VMs between regions or Azure Public MECs.
- VMware VM Replication: Replicate VMware VMs to Azure using improved Azure Site Recovery replication appliances.
- On-Premises VM Replication: Replicate on-premises VMs and physical servers to Azure or a secondary on-premises datacenter, eliminating the need for maintaining a secondary datacenter.
- Workload Replication: Replicate workloads from various sources, including supported Azure VMs, on-premises Hyper-V and VMware VMs, and Windows/Linux physical servers.
- Data Resilience: Replication without interfering with application data storage and data resilience in Azure.
- RTO and RPO Targets: Meet recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) with flexible replication frequencies.
- Application-Consistent Snapshots: Create snapshots for application-consistent recovery points.
- Testing without Disruption: Conduct disaster recovery drills without affecting ongoing replication.
- Flexible Failovers: Plan both expected and unexpected failovers with customizable failback options.
- Customized Recovery Plans: Customize and sequence multi-tier application failover and recovery.
- BCDR Integration: Integrate with other BCDR technologies, such as SQL Server Always On.
- Azure Automation Integration: Use Azure Automation scripts for production-ready integration.
- Network Integration: Manage application network settings, IP addresses, load balancers, and network switchovers within Azure.
How to Set up Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery is a service provided by Microsoft Azure that contributes to an organization’s business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy. It ensures that business-critical applications and workloads remain operational during both planned and unplanned outages.