Configuring Azure Site Recovery policies

While policies can be created for any of the ASR infrastructure types individually and manually, this doesn’t help in managing workloads and virtual machines at scale. As such, it is recommended to utilize Azure Policy to apply your disaster recovery policies directly to all resources within subscriptions or resource groups and ensure compliance and remediation so that all virtual machines are protected based on the business requirements and recovery objectives.

Let’s walk through how to utilize Azure Policy to complete this configuration, basing the steps on the full quick start located at https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-how-to-enable-policy:

1. Starting with Azure Policy assignments, we will assign a new policy and apply that to the scope of a subscription. Then, we will select the existing policy definition of Configure disaster recovery on virtual machines by enabling replication via Azure...