If you’ve worked with Azure before, you may be aware that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is the Disaster Recovery solution for the cloud. However, up until now, to protect an Azure Virtual Machine for disaster recovery, you would have to…
Using ASR with a Standalone Hyper-V Host Configured as a Cluster
I ran into this scenario when attempting to configure a demo environment. The source environment had a single Hyper-V host, but, it was also configured as a Hyper-V cluster. Why this was is unclear, but it posed some issues when…
Backup is NOT Disaster Recovery, Why You Need Both to be Fully Covered!
A few years ago I had the privilege to attend Azure Site Recovery Boot Camp training at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley in Mountain View, CA. The experience was amazing, and I enjoyed it. In fact, we received a first-hand preview of the…
Azure – The Complete BCDR Story
I am going to tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was an organization. And this organization was interested in the cloud. And so, they migrated their datacenter to the cloud, but unfortunately, they believed that, since the…
Azure-to-Azure (A2A) Disaster Recovery (ASR)
Many organizations are moving mission critical applications to Azure. A lot of organizations are starting to explore Microsoft Azure as a Disaster Recovery (DR) site to their existing datacenters. If you haven’t started to consider this, Microsoft provides several tools…