ASR

Azure – Be aware the ASR for VMWare in preview is set as the default option

If you have to create a new Site Recovery for use with Azure Site Recovery for VMWare, be aware that the preview experience is set as the default experience. This experience is currently in preview You should have a purple banner letting you know about it and allowing to change back the classic but depending […]

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Azure – Azure Backup now provides reports (Preview)

Azure Backup is now providing backup reports. Azure Backup reports use Azure Monitor and Azure Workbooks to track and audit backups and restores. Azure Backup Report is providing the following benefits: Boundary-less reporting: Backup Reports work across multiple workload types that are supported by Azure Backup. This includes Azure workloads such as Azure Virtual Machines,

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Azure – Get prepared for the retirement of ‘legacy’ data encryption in Azure Site Recovery

You may already know that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is encrypting data to ensure your data stay safe and secure. Well, this is an important announcement here; the current data encryption method used by Azure Site Recovery is being retired by April 30, 2022 to be replaced by Encryption at Rest capabilities (introduced earlier in

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Azure Site Recovery – Get prepared for retirement of SCVMM disaster recovery capability

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is the disaster recovery solution from Microsoft running on Azure to help you manage and recover from disaster for your on-premises infrastructure. ASR is frequently evolving to include new capabilities and some time to get some retired. This is the case today. On March 1st, 2023 (so you have a little

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Azure – Azure Recovery now supports SQL 2019 and restore as file

Azure Recovery Services is keeping up with the latest release of Microsoft SQL, SQL Server 2019, as it now supports backing up SQL Server 2019 data running on virtual machine. This also includes support for SQL Server 2019 running on Windows Server 2019. In addition of this support, you also now restore SQL backup as

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Azure – Azure Site Recovery can now clean up deallocated VM’s and NIC’s

As you know, Azure Site Recovery (ASR) allows you to replicate your virtual machines (either from on-premise to Azure or between 2 Azure regions) to provide you disaster recovery if your primary site is failing. If you are using Azure Site Recovery to replicate between 2 Azure regions, when you fail back to your primary

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Azure – Azure Backup for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 is in preview

As you are aware, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 are reaching their end of life. Microsoft has offered to extend the support of these products if you moved them to Azure for an additional 3 years to give more time for migration. That said, once you have move your SQL Server

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Azure – You can now move a recovery vault to another resource group or another subscription

You can now move an Azure Recovery Service (ASR) Vault to either a new resource group within the current subscription or to a new subscription. While doing that, you need to know: During vault move across resource groups, both the source and target resource groups are locked preventing the write and delete operations Only admin

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Azure – Azure Site Recovery automatic update is now available

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is an Azure service allowing you to setup a disaster recovery infrastructure by replicating your virtual machines either from on-premises (VMWare/Hyper-V) or from Azure. When you implement ASR you have to deploy a component, known as mobility service, on each virtual machines being replicated. As each time ASR is updated (which

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