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February 2024

Feb 27

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 1

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features

January 2024

Jan 22

Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Private preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Compliance
  • Management

August 2023

Aug 29

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features

April 2023

Apr 5

Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management

March 2023

Mar 31

Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026

Target retirement date: March 30, 2026

Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Retirements

January 2023

Jan 9

At-scale monitoring for Azure Site Recovery with Backup center

NOW AVAILABLE

The new enhancements released in Backup center enable you to monitor replicated items, jobs and manage them across subscriptions, resource groups and locations from a single view.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management

December 2022

Dec 14

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features

October 2022

Oct 8

General availability: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2022

Today we’re officially announcing the general availability of a simpler, more reliable, and modernized way to protect your VMware virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery, for recovering quickly from disasters.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Management
  • Features

August 2022

Aug 8

General availability: Upgrade VMware VMs protected by Site Recovery to modernized experience

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing the migration capability to move existing replications from classic to modernized experience for disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines, enabled using Azure Site Recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features

July 2022

Jul 14

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62 - July 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure update for Azure Site Recovery update rollup 62.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features

March 2022

Mar 28

Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover

NOW AVAILABLE

Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features

February 2022

Feb 7

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 - January 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

Review the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 60.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
Feb 7

Generally Available: Recovery points extended to 15 days with Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

The extended recovery points give you flexibility in how you want to manage recovery points and the ability to recover older recovery points if you missed detecting them.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features

January 2022

Jan 24

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery support for ZRS Managed Disks

NOW AVAILABLE

With ASR, you can protect your VMs that uses ZRS managed disks by replicating them to a secondary region of your choice.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
Jan 10

Generally available: Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2022

You can now use Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 22

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 59 is now generally available - November 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

Information about the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 59.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features

September 2021

Sep 30

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 58 is now generally available - September 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
Sep 27

Azure Site Recovery: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or later by November 15, 2021 - for improved security

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or later by November 15, 2021 for improved security of replication data.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Security

August 2021

Aug 31

Public preview: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

A new and more reliable way to protect VMware machines using simplified ASR replication appliance

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features

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