Introduction
Natural or human-made disasters might affect the continuity of your organization's cloud infrastructure. Planning for disaster and ensuring recovery and business continuity plans are in place to deal with such an event is the key to any organization's longevity.
Azure Site Recovery provides disaster recovery for Azure infrastructure by managing and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback of Azure virtual machines (VMs).
Assume you're working at a medical-care organization with multiple facilities across the country/region. Your organization has recently suffered an outage because of building damage in your data center from a hurricane. You want to move this infrastructure to Azure and take advantage of the replication and recovery features available there. You have several virtual machines running in Azure already, and now wish to configure protection for them to fail over to a secondary Azure region if there's a disaster.
In this module, you'll learn about Azure Site Recovery and explore the features that apply to a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan.
Learning objectives
In this module, you'll:
- Protect Azure VMs with Azure Site Recovery.
- Run a disaster recovery drill to validate the protection.
- Failover and failback your virtual machines.
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of Azure VMs
- Basic understanding of Azure virtual networking
Note
For this module, you'll need to use your subscription to complete the optional exercises. This subscription can be a free trial subscription or one to which you already have access.