Introduction to Azure Site Recovery

ASR is a cloud-native Azure cloud data protection and disaster recovery service that protects both on-premises and Azure-hosted virtual machines and servers. ASR provides a single replication solution for protecting and restoring data from virtual machines running on either VMware or Hyper-V clusters and physical servers. In the event of a failure and based on your organization’s disaster recovery strategy (let’s be honest, this will happen at some point), ASR provides a fully automated disaster recovery service that encrypts data both in transit and at rest, while also providing the ability to fail over services to a secondary site or even another Azure region while meeting your organizational requirements and policies.

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans typically require recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for your workloads and applications, identifying a maximum amount of time...