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Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q2 2024
Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
February 2024
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
Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions
Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions
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.
December 2023
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 70 - December 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 69 - November 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
October 2023
Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
August 2023
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 68 - August 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Target availability: Q3 2023
Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster.
Public preview: Azure SQL updates for early-August 2023
Target availability: Q3 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-August 2023
May 2023
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 - May 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
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
Generally available: Azure Site Recovery - Migrate Azure Automation account's authentication from Run As accounts to Managed Identity
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery.
Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery
This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery.
Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2023
You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.
Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Blob for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2023
Enable scheduled backups for Azure Blob using Azure Backup to ensure business continuity and recovery from inadvertent or malicious deletion or ransomware attacks.
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