Chapter 2
Azure Site Recovery
Overview
Microsoft introduced the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) service in public preview in June 2014. ASR initially focused on Hyper-V–to–Hyper-V and on-premises Hyper-V–to–Azure recovery scenarios. Over time, the service evolved to include additional capabilities, such as support for various operating systems, Azure IaaS VMs, and complex workloads that you could replicate in coordination with each other so you could bring them online in Azure with a similar recovery point. The simplicity, stability, and cost effectiveness provided by ASR has made it a very popular service used by organizations for their business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy.
The key features of this service include the following: ...
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