How to enable Azure Site Recovery on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2

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.

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Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disks

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Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a service that helps you protect your workloads from disasters by replicating them to Azure or another region. ASR supports various types of workloads, including Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) that use shared disks.

Shared disks are a feature that allows multiple VMs to access the same disk simultaneously, enabling scenarios such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, and more. However, replicating shared disks can be challenging, as they require consistency across all the VMs and disks of the cluster.

That’s why ASR has introduced a new feature in private preview: DR for Azure Shared Disks. This feature allows you to protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points.

In this post, we will show you how to use this feature and what benefits it offers.

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