New Cloud Disaster Recovery Benefit for Azure SQL Virtual Machines
Published date: 22 January, 2020
Every Software Assurance customer of SQL Server now can use three enhanced benefits for any SQL Server release that is still supported by Microsoft:
Failover servers for high availability – allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server instances in a separate operating system environment (OSE) or server for high availability on-premises in anticipation of a failover event.
Failover servers for disaster recovery – NEW – allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server instances in a separate OSE or server on-premises for disaster recovery in anticipation of a failover event
Failover servers for disaster recovery in Azure – NEW – allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server instances in a separate OSE or server for disaster recovery in Azure in anticipation of a failover event