Disaster Recovery of a VM in Azure
Background Back in June 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of Disaster Recovery (DR) for Azure virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery. Azure is the first public cloud provider to offer native DR solution for application running on IaaS. Along with Availability Zone and availability sets, ‘ Azure Site Recovery’ provides resiliency for applications running on Azure VMs. This blog will cover the extensive points on disaster recovery setup process for virtual machine hosted in Azure. I’ve divided this article into several sub-sections for disaster recovery: Prerequisites Create Recovery Services Vault Enable Replication Test Failover Failover, Commit & Re-Protect Prerequisites: A zure subscription with permission to create ‘ Recovery Services Vault’ and VMs in target region along with virtual network, storage account etc. Supported VM operating systems like Windows or Linux. Supported Azure regions for disaster recovery (DR) Outbound network ...