{"id":4986,"date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/ga-enhanced-migration-and-disaster-recovery-for-vmware-virtual-machines-and-physical-servers-to-azure-using-asr"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:09:15","slug":"ga-enhanced-migration-and-disaster-recovery-for-vmware-virtual-machines-and-physical-servers-to-azure-using-asr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/ga-enhanced-migration-and-disaster-recovery-for-vmware-virtual-machines-and-physical-servers-to-azure-using-asr\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing enhanced migration and disaster recovery for VMware using ASR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m excited to announce the General Availability of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/asr_vmware_to_azure_enhanced_landingpage\">Azure Site Recovery<\/a> (ASR) <b>enhanced VMware to Azure <\/b>functionality. Customers can now protect and replicate their VMware virtual machines and physical servers to Azure, without the need to deploy any replication or orchestration components in Azure IaaS. This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/asr_vmware_to_azure_enhanced_documentation\">enhancement to ASR&nbsp;<\/a>is designed to help drastically reduce the total cost of ownership and dramatically improve manageability and simplicity when customers choose to deploy ASR to replicate, and protect (or migrate) their VMware workloads to Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The in-market VMware to Azure scenario \u2013 now legacy \u2013 will continue to remain available for some time, but we strongly recommend that customers begin using the new enhanced VMware to Azure solution&nbsp;when replicating VMware workloads or physical machines to Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The enhanced functionality has been in Private Preview since October 2015, and has successfully passed the rigorous evaluation and validation goals of our early customers, many of whom are already moving their production workloads to the enhanced offering. 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Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/asr_vmware_to_azure_enhanced_msdnforum\">Azure Site Recovery forum on MSDN<\/a> for additional information and to engage with other customers, or use the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/asr_vmware_to_azure_enhanced_uservoice\">ASR UserVoice<\/a> to let us know what features you want us to enable next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ready to start using ASR?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/asr_vmware_to_azure_enhanced_landingpage\">Check out additional product information<\/a>, to start replicating your workloads to Microsoft Azure using Azure Site Recovery today. 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