Site Recovery
Orchestrating your disaster recovery plan
- Automated protection and replication of virtual machines
- Remote health monitoring
- Customisable recovery plans
- No-impact recovery plan testing
- Orchestrated recovery when needed
- Replication to (and recovery in) Azure
Customers using Site Recovery
Simple, automated protection and disaster recovery in the cloud
Protect your environment by automating the replication of the virtual machines, based on policies that you set and control. Azure Site Recovery can protect Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware and physical servers, and you can use Azure or your secondary data centre as your recovery site. Site Recovery coordinates and manages the ongoing replication of data by integrating with existing technologies, including System Center and Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn.
Orchestrated disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
Use Site Recovery to automate the recovery of services when a site outage happens at the primary data centre. Applications can be brought up in an orchestrated fashion to help restore service quickly, even for complex multi-tier workloads. Easily create disaster recovery plans in the Microsoft Azure classic portal, where they are stored. The disaster recovery plans can be as simple or advanced as your business requirements demand, including the execution of customised Windows PowerShell scripts and Azure Automation runbooks, and pauses for manual interventions. Customise networks by mapping virtual networks between the primary and recovery sites, and test disaster recovery plans whenever you want without disrupting the services at your primary location.
Replication and disaster recovery to Azure
Replicate your workloads to Azure and enable new capabilities. Applications can be migrated to Azure with just a few clicks, or burst to Azure temporarily when you encounter a surge in demand. Run reports and analytics on copies of production workloads in Azure without affecting customers. DevTest new versions of applications with copies of live data, then seamlessly put the new version into production in your data centre.
Continuous health monitoring with Site Recovery
Site Recovery monitors the state of your protected instances continuously and remotely from Azure. When replicating between two sites that you control, your virtual machines’ data and replication stays on your networks. All communication with Azure is encrypted. When replicating to Azure as the secondary site, your data is encrypted, and you can also select encryption for data at rest.
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