Enhanced migration and disaster recovery for VMware using ASR
Published date: January 11, 2016
ASR’s enhanced VMware to Azure scenario is now Generally Available.This GA release, among other enhancements, is designed to help customers benefit from the following key functionality:
- Elimination of IaaS-based replication and orchestration components/appliance
- MSI-based unified setup of on-premises components, which significantly reduces the time and complexity to onboard to the scenario
- Non-disruptive disaster recovery testing with Test Failover
- ASR-integrated failback experience without vContinuum, with support for alternate location recovery, and original location recovery
- Disk-based replication from source machines, and driver installation without needing a source reboot
- Multi-VM Application and Crash-Consistent Replication for Windows and Linux
- Migration of protected machines from the in-market - Legacy - VMware to Azure scenario to the Enhanced VMware to Azure scenario
- Enterprise-grade enhancements such as support for FQDNs, custom ports, and installation paths
- Support for CentOS & RHEL 6.7, vCenter Server 6.0