Azure Site Recover (ASR)
Leader
opportunitymomentum
Source: Forrester “The State of Business Technology Resiliency Q2 2014”, May 12, 2014
Operational Failures Natural Disasters Human-caused events Other
Single
provider
Simplicity Hybrid
design
Unlocks Azure
Services
Costs
Protecting few Workloads
Difficult to protect complex environments and applications
Testing DR policies can become disruptive to production workloadsComplexity
Extensive recovery times result in loss of revenue
Protecting an entire environment with traditional DR solutions is expensive.
Some workloads that could benefit from protection go unprotected due to
costs and complexity
Any OSWindows Linux
Site to Azure Site to Site
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Disaster Recovery | Migration | DevTest
Enhanced Architecture
Source: VMware VMs& Physical Servers
Data Channel
OMS Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
ProcessServer
ConfigServer
Process Server Configuration Server
Mobility Service
NEW FEATURES
Streamlined Getting Started experience designed to ensure customer success
Coexistence of Classic and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployment models
Achieve better Recovery Time Objective (RTO) with Resource Manager
Achieve better IOPS for workloads post recovery in Azure
Support for Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)
Replicate workloads to ARM-based standard storage accounts with Storage Service Encryption
NEW FEATURES
Exclude ‘tempdb’, ‘pagefile’ or disks that you don’t want to replicate to Azure
Combine high-margin offerings with Microsoft cloud products
First step towards offering a converged Backup and Disaster Recovery experience
HOT OFF THE PRESS RHEL 7.1, 7.2, CentOS 7.0+
ASR Replication
Azure Site Recovery
ASR Replication
App Tier
Web Tier
DB Tier
Primary Site Azure
Azure Storage
Active Directory
ASR Replication
Application DR with ASR
ASR Replication
SQL Availability Group
App Tier
Web Tier
DB Tier
Primary Site Azure
Azure Storage
IaaS VM
Active Directory
AD & ASR Replication IaaS VM
Azure Site Recovery
Active Directory | IIS | RDS/VDI | File Server
additional license charge for DR of 1st party workloads
Config & Process Server –Used for Caching, Compression, Encryption & Management
Mobility Service –Captures all data writes from memory
Microsoft Azure
https 443
Config & Process Server
On Premises Datacenter
https 443, 9443
Source: VMware & Physical Servers
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Azure Storage
Up to 10 Gbps network
Customer Datacenter
Azure Public Services (Storage)
Azure Compute
Customer Connectivity
Azure Edge
Partner Edge
Connectivity to IaaS Virtual Network post failover (Private Peering)
Site Recovery replication traffic (Pubic Peering)
Data Reduction
Average: 72.1%
Peak: 99.7%
3.6x capacity increase
LAN Throughput
Total: 95.4 GB
WAN Throughput
Total: 26.6 GB
Source: Microsoft and Riverbed whitepaper: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Optimizing-Azure-Recovery-8da50893
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Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent - Replicates data to Azure
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
https 443
Azure Storage
On Premises Datacenter
SCVMM
https 443
Disaster Recovery Adapter (DRA) –Coordinate management tasks
Source: Hyper-V Servers
When replicating workloads into Azure, execute tests to ensure readiness
Move a single application or an entire datacenter to the cloud with minimal impact to production users
Source: Hyper-V VMsData
Channel
Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent
OMS Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
Hyper-VServer
Enhanced Architecture
Source: AWS AMIsData
Channel
OMS Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
Mobility Service
ProcessServer
ConfigServer
Process Server Configuration Server
• Scenarios• Migrate On Premises infrastructure to Azure (ARM)
• Reporting available to monitor migration and report status.
• Disaster Recovery of On Premises infrastructure to Azure.
• Migrate between Azure Data centers.
• Results• In the first 90 days, Microsoft IT has been able to migrate 1500+ VMs to Azure.
• Plans are to expand the usage to migrate/DR multiple thousands of additional VMs.
• Quotes• “The ASR tools are great. I was able to migrate our VMs with minimal downtime to the business.”
• - Director, Finance IT
• “It’s like magic pixie dust. You configure ASR, let it run in the background, and are able to do the failover during a standardmaintenance window of your choosing. This is exactly the tool we needed to provide our internal customers flexibility while performing migrations to Azure.”
• - Service Manager ,Microsoft IT for Azure
NEW FEATURES
Move applications permanently to Azure and stop Site Recovery billing
No Site Recovery charges if migration is completed within 31 days
HOT OFF THE PRESS Move Windows Server licenses covered under Software Assurance to AzureHOT OFF THE PRESS Site Recovery HUB support limited to Azure Resource Manager deployments only
Source Target Availability Supported Guest OS
Types
Hyper-V 2012 R2 Azure Available All Guest OS types supported by
Azure
Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 and 2012 Azure Available Windows* and Linux*
VMware vSphere 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 and
Physical Servers
Azure Available Windows* and Linux*
Amazon Web Services (Windows
AMIs)
Azure Available Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1+ (HVM
only)
Amazon Web Services (Linux
AMIs)
Azure Available RHEL 6.7 HVM JUST ANNOUNCED!
Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V
2012R2
Available All Guest OS types supported by
Hyper-V
*Limited to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1+, Red Hat 6.7, 7.1, 7.2, CentOS 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.0+ Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4, 6.5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
• Azure does not support virtual machines running a UEFI / Generation 2 firmware. Site Recovery cannot directly migrate a virtual machine from VMware to Azure IaaS, when that virtual machine is using UEFI firmware
• Option 1: Convert the VMware VM from UEFI to BIOS firmware and use Site Recovery to migrate a BIOS virtual machine from VMware to Azure IaaS
• Option 2: Migrate the VMware VM from UEFI to a Generation 2 Hyper-V virtual machine and use Site Recovery to migrate the virtual machine from the Hyper-V host to Azure IaaS
• Option 3: Use an external vendor tool or manual process that can convert and migrate the virtual machines between formats in VMware and Azure IaaS
Pay-as-you-go Suites – requires annual pre-commitment
(All prices are monthly prices without any customer discounts)
Service Price (per
month)
Insight & Analytics(includes Log Analytics)
$15/ node
Automation & Control $10/ node
Security & Compliance or
Azure Security Center
$15/ node
Backup $10/ node
Site Recovery – E2E $16/ node
Site Recovery – E2A $25/ node
Log Analytics $2.3 per GB
Automation $0.002 per min
Suite Price (per
month)
Insight & Analytics suite
• Insight & Analytics
• SCOM
$15/ node
Automation & Control
suite
• Automation & Control
• SCCM & Orchestrator
$10/ node
Security & Compliance
suite
• Azure Security Center or
• OMS Security &
Compliance
$15/ node
Protection & Recovery
suite
• Backup
• Site Recovery – E2E & E2A
• VMM & DPM
$30/ node
Suite Price (per
month)
OMS E1
• Insight & Analytics
• Automation & Control
• All of System Center
$20/ node
OMS E2
• Insight & Analytics
• Automation & Control
• Security & Compliance
• Backup
• Site Recovery – E2E &
E2A
• All of System Center
$35/ node
For E2A in addition to above ASR charges,
customer will pay Storage charges for the
replicated data and Azure IAAS charges for the
duration of failovers.
Site Recovery Documentation https://aka.ms/siterecovery_documentation
Site Recovery Blogs https://aka.ms/siterecovery_blogs
Site Recovery Microsoft Virtual Academy Course https://aka.ms/siterecovery_mva
Support Forum https://aka.ms/asrforum
Feedback (User Voice) https://aka.ms/ASRuservoice