Support matrix for Azure Site Recovery shared disks (preview)
This article summarizes the scenarios that shared disk in Azure Site Recovery supports for each workload type.
The following table lists the supported scenarios for shared disk in Azure Site Recovery:
Scenarios | Supported workloads |
---|---|
Azure to Azure disaster recovery | Supported for Regional/Zonal disaster recovery - Azure to Azure |
Platform | Windows virtual machines |
Server SKU | Windows 2016 and later |
Clustering configuration | Active-Passive |
Clustering solution | Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) |
Shared disk type | Standard and Premium SSD |
Disk partitioning type | Basic |
Following are the unsupported scenarios for shared disk in Azure Site Recovery:
- Active-Active clusters
- Protecting multiple clusters as a group
- Protecting cluster + non-clustered virtual machines in a group
- Non-clustered distributed appliances without using WSFC
The following table lists the disaster recovery support for shared disk in Azure Site Recovery:
Disaster recovery support | Primary Disk Type | Site Recovery behavior | Target disk type |
---|---|---|---|
Zonal disaster recovery | ZRS | Not supported | |
Zonal disaster recovery | LRS | Supported | Target must be LRS |
Regional disaster recovery | ZRS | Supported | Target must be ZRS |
Regional disaster recovery | LRS | Supported | Target must be LRS |
Regional disaster recovery | LRS | Supported | ZRS |
Learn about setting up disaster recovery for Azure virtual machines using shared disk.