Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, you need to ensure that the technical requirements from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, have been completed in full. Many aspects of ASR services require a rigorous amount of detail and require infrastructure configuration time for both initial protection as well as ongoing replication and protection. We will focus on the requirements, best practices, and high-level concepts in this chapter and will be primarily reviewing areas of the Azure portal environment to follow the walkthroughs throughout this chapter that align with the AZ-801 exam objectives.

Let’s begin by reviewing what ASR provides to assist with business continuity and disaster recovery services.