Unclear RPO and RTO for SQL always on availability group

Assaf L 281

The article about BCDR for SQL Server provides a descriptive information regarding RTO and RPO for using Always On availability group for SQL Server on Azure VM (RTO: The time taken to make the secondary replica as primary, RPO: Because replication to the secondary replica is asynchronous, there's some data loss)

Is there a range of time to provide for these values to consider with expectations we have for our organization?

SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 46,041 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-06T11:30:02.93+00:00

@Assaf L Have you had a chance to see the previous response? If the suggestions were helpful, click “Accept Answer” and Up-Vote. Feel free to reach out to us if you've additional questions in this regard.
Assaf L 281 Reputation points

2023-03-08T16:10:59.9433333+00:00

last answer from @Carlos Solis Salazar was the correct answer - test failover drill is required to understand the exact values of this activity

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Carlos Solís Salazar 17,971 Reputation points

2023-02-28T11:17:18.1066667+00:00

Thank you for asking this question on the Microsoft Q&A Platform.

This thread refers to the Overview of business continuity with Azure SQL Database & Azure SQL Managed Instance document

Hope this helps!

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Assaf L 281 Reputation points

2023-03-02T07:05:35.8766667+00:00

Hi @Carlos Solis Salazar ,

Thank you for your response,

The details you shared refer to features related to SQL Database or SQL MI services

I am asking about a feature related to SQL on VM (referred to as SQL Server on an Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machine (VM) in the BCDR for SQL Server article)

Are there any clearer values of RTO and RPO?

Carlos Solís Salazar 17,971 Reputation points

2023-03-02T12:53:02.0733333+00:00

Thank you for sharing that article, Indeed Azure documentation will give you a referential time for RTO and RPO,
To have a clear value you must run a Test-failover

What is the RTO of a VM failover? Site Recovery has an RTO SLA of two hours. Most of the time, Site Recovery fails over VMs within minutes. To calculate the RTO, review the failover job, which shows the time it took to bring up a VM.

Source:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-common-questions

Hope this helps!
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