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6. Understanding Azure Site Recovery

Peter De Tender

(1)Daknam, Belgium

Just like Azure Backup discussed in the previous chapters, Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is part of the “business continuity” features of OMS. And that is exactly what it does; it provides a solution to make sure businesses can run their applications in case of a disaster. This is made possible by replicating on-premises servers to Azure Virtual Machines. Or by replicating machines between two datacenters, and using ASR as the control and failover/failback management solution, without replicating data to the Azure Cloud itself.

ASR allows you to replicate from an on-premises ...

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