Author- Samruddhi Raut, Cloud Engineer

Azure site recovery

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) makes it possible for businesses to minimize service downtimes due to IT operational interruptions. Microsoft Azure Site Recovery orchestrates and manages disaster recovery for both physical servers and Windows, Linux, Hyper-V, and VMware virtual machines

Azure Site Recovery provides two types of functionality

Replication – Replication synchronizes the contents of the operating systems and the data disks attached to the servers and virtual machines hosted on either Azure or in the on-premises environment between the primary site and the secondary site.
Orchestration – Orchestration is responsible for seamless failover and failback between the primary and the secondary sites if a disaster affects the primary site.

Prerequisites

Azure recovery service vault
A physical computer on which to install the configuration server.
Azure Storage Account

Next we are going to setup configuration server for physical server replication Step 1. Create Recovery Service vault

Step2. From Site Recovery Infrastructure select Configuration server under VMware & Physical Machine

Step 3. Add server

Step 4. Download Microsoft Site Recovery Setup and Registration key Step 5. Run Set up and provide registration key

Successfully completed installation of azure site recovery setup Step 6. Now we are going to enable replication on our physical server. For that we have created policy and associated that policy with our server. Step 7. First we have to prepare infrastructure for replication so for that in site recovery select prepare infrastructure

Step 8. In the next step we are going to enable replication In this step we have select configuration server, machine type which is physical

In this step we have done with our source environment next create target environment

After adding details of the target environment next we will add physical machine details name and IP address Step 9. In the replication setting, we will add a policy for replication.