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Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks
Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.
Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs
January 2024
Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q1 2024
Private preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery.
August 2023
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support
April 2023
Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery
Target availability: Q2 2023
You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.
March 2023
Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 30, 2026
Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026
January 2023
At-scale monitoring for Azure Site Recovery with Backup center
The new enhancements released in Backup center enable you to monitor replicated items, jobs and manage them across subscriptions, resource groups and locations from a single view.
December 2022
Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support
October 2022
General availability: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q4 2022
Today we are officially announcing the general availability of a simpler, more reliable, and modernised way to protect your VMware virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery, for recovering quickly from disasters.
August 2022
General availability: Upgrade VMware VMs protected by Site Recovery to modernized experience
Introducing the migration capability to move existing replications from classic to modernized experience for disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines, enabled using Azure Site Recovery.
July 2022
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62 - July 2022
Azure update for Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62.
March 2022
Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover.
February 2022
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 - January 2022
Review the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 60.
Generally Available: Recovery points extended to 15 days with Azure Site Recovery
The extended recovery points give you flexibility in how you want to manage recovery points and the ability to recover older recovery points if you missed detecting them.
January 2022
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery support for ZRS Managed Disks
With ASR, you can protect your VMs that uses ZRS managed disks by replicating them to a secondary region of your choice.
Generally available: Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q1 2022
You can now use Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organisational standards.
November 2021
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 59 is now generally available - November 2021
Information about the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 59.
September 2021
Azure Site Recovery update rollup 58 is now generally available - September 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components.
Azure Site Recovery: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or later by November 15, 2021 - for improved security
Azure Site Recovery: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or later by November 15, 2021 for improved security of replication data.
August 2021
Public preview: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
A new and more reliable way to protect VMware machines using simplified ASR replication appliance
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