Disaster Recovery environment in the cloud
One of the most common challenges when moving to the cloud is how often you need to rethink the way the business may have performed tasks or architected solutions. Disaster Recovery (DR) is no different.
Azure has numerous high-availability components built into it, but if you choose to build your environment with virtually managed hosts in the cloud, there are significant options for DR. Here, we'll discuss the Azure Site Recovery service.
Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a versatile service for backing up, cloning, and recovering data. Considered Azure's Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), the service is a hybrid, connecting to both on-premises and cloud VMs, even connecting to VMware and AWS for migrations to Azure VMs.
The service has a critical role to play for VMs with SQL 2019 databases residing on them. Once the ASR resource is added to a resource group, VMs can be added and schedules...