microsoft azure site recovery is an excellent disaster recovery solution that can help you to keep your business operating even in the event of a disaster. It provides a highly reliable and scalable platform that can easily support your business applications and website. In addition, it offers the ability to replicate and protect physical servers, 3rd party cloud services, and VMs. It also provides telemetry and monitoring so you can be sure your replication is working properly.
Continuous Replication
With Azure Site Recovery, you can configure continuous replication to move data between your on-premises servers and your Azure virtual machines. This helps you meet your Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective requirements by minimizing the amount of lost work in the event of an outage. Additionally, it enables you to fail back to your on-premises environment with a single click.
When using Azure Site Recovery, you can select the region where you want to replicate. You can also set the frequency of backups, and specify whether you want to include virtual disks. Additionally, you can choose to use the same storage account for replication and backups, or to separate them. You can also enable encryption in transit and at rest to ensure that your data stays secure.
In order to get started with a VMware to Azure production deployment, download the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner tool from the Microsoft site. Run the tool from a Windows server that has network access to your vCenter Server or vSphere ESXi host that holds the VMs you want to profile. Then, follow the on-screen prompts to connect to the server and perform the initial setup and configuration of Site Recovery.
Once the setup and configuration are complete, the tool will begin running the Enable Protection job to prepare the VMs for replication. Once the jobs have finished, you can check the status of the process on the Configuration Server tab. Once the VMs are replicated to your Azure site, you can enable manual failback to your on-premises location by selecting it from the Azure portal.
During the replication process, the on-premises and Azure sites communicate with each other over encrypted channels. This prevents malware from tampering with your data and ensures that the replication is accurate. In addition, Azure Site Recovery uses checksums to compute the integrity of each transfer between the on-premises and Azure sites. This ensures that the transferred data is identical to the original, reducing the risk of corruption or loss. Additionally, Azure Site Recovery uses a private connection between the on-premises and Azure sites, providing additional security.