Azure Site Recovery is a service that helps you keep your data safe and your apps and workloads online when planned and unplanned outages occur. It allows you to replicate your Azure VMs to another region and failover to the secondary region in case of a disaster.
But what if you are using Premium SSD v2 disks for your Azure VMs? Premium SSD v2 is a new offering that provides the most advanced block storage solution for IO-intensive enterprise workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies and high IOPS and throughput at a low cost. Premium SSD v2 disks are currently available in select regions and can only be attached to zonal VMs.
If you want to enable Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 disks, you are in luck! Microsoft has announced a private preview of this feature in selected Azure regions. This feature will allow you to replicate your Premium SSD v2 disks to another region that supports them and failover to the secondary region in case of a disaster.
To participate in the private preview, you need to request access and follow the instructions provided by Microsoft. You also need to make sure that both the primary and secondary regions support Premium SSD v2 disks. You can check the regional availability of Premium SSD v2 disks here.
Once you have access to the private preview, you can follow the steps below to enable Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 disks:
- Create a recovery services vault in the same region as your primary VMs.
- Enable replication for your primary VMs using the Azure portal or PowerShell.
- Select the secondary region that supports Premium SSD v2 disks and create a target resource group, virtual network, and storage account.
- Configure the replication settings, such as recovery point retention, replication frequency, and encryption.
- Start the initial replication and monitor the progress.
- Perform a test failover to verify that your VMs can run in the secondary region.
- Perform a planned failover or unplanned failover when needed.
By enabling Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 disks, you can ensure that your critical workloads are protected from regional outages and can resume operations quickly and seamlessly in another region.