Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk feature, which enables you to protect, monitor, recover, and re-protect your workloads running on Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) on Azure VMs with Shared Disk.

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. Learn more.

What is Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk?

With Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk, you can replicate and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its disaster recovery (DR) lifecycle, while generating cluster-consistent recovery points. With Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk, you can:

• Protect your cluster.
• Generate recovery points that are consistent across all the VMs and disks of the cluster.
• Monitor protection and health of the cluster and all its nodes from a single page.
• Failover the cluster with a single click.
• Change recovery point and re-protect the cluster after failover with a single click.
• Failback the cluster to primary region with minimal data loss and downtime.

   

Salient Features:

• OS Support: Windows Server 2016 and later. 
• Nodes: Up to 4 nodes per cluster.
• Shared Disks: Any number of shared disks can be attached to the cluster.