Recovering from a Disaster with Azure Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery is intended to be used as part of an organization’s disaster recovery and business continuity (DRBC) plans, which it does by ensuring applications and workloads are accessible during outages. A simple example of site recovery would be to replicate the storage for a VM from the primary region to the secondary region. If the primary region goes offline, you can fail over to the secondary region without issue. The replication can also occur from on-premises environments to Azure and vice versa. Once the secondary copy is invoked, it then becomes the primary copy and replication will need to be reconfigured again for the reverse direction. Azure Site Recovery creates and orchestrates a complete automated DR plan for your workloads.

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Azure Site Recovery can also be used to migrate on-premises VMs to Azure, although it is preferential to utilize the Azure Migrate service for migrations.

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