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Microsoft recently launched a public preview of Azure Site Recovery with support for the Azure Portal and Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is Microsoft’s disaster recovery (DR) solution. It offers two kinds of solutions:
Azure Site Recovery has only existed in the old Azure management portal and has only supported ARM deployments via PowerShell. This has caused some issues:
Microsoft recently launched a public preview of a new ASR administration experience. You can create a recovery services vault in the Azure Portal and use it to support Service Management or ARM deployments of ASR. The solution currently supports the following “from site to Azure” scenarios:
It also supports orchestration between two privately owned sites with Hyper-V and System Center VMM.
You can create a recovery services vault in the Azure Portal by clicking New > Hybrid Integration and selecting or searching for Recovery Services.
Creating an Azure recovery services vault (Image Credit: Aidan Finn)
Configuring the ASR scenario in the Azure Portal (Image Credit: Aidan Finn)
Afterward, you can browse your site and select virtual machines for replication. One nice change that I like here is that you can select multiple virtual machines at once, where the old user interface allowed you to select only one machine at a time and forced you to repeat the wizard over and over.
Next, you will create the recovery plan to orchestrate your failover. This is where the magic is in any DR solution. You can automate and order the failover of machines with a recovery plan. You can then perform any kind of failover, including test failovers with an isolated virtual network, by starting the recovery plan. Repeated test failovers will allow you to sort out bugs and extend the level of automation that you have, ensuring that when you run the recovery plan for real (planned or unplanned failover), then you will get a reliable result, where you can keep your job and keep the business going.
There are things that I really like about the new user interface, and there are a few things I’d like to see change. The ASR and Azure Backup teams love getting feedback, so if there’s something that you’d like to see added, removed, or changed, then follow the previous links and submit your idea or vote for others. The teams are quite keen to get your feedback on this preview, so start testing and let them know what you think.
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