We recently announced the public preview of disaster recovery for Azure IaaS machines, which allows you to replicate applications between Azure regions as well as create networks, storage accounts, and availability sets. This capability reduces the complexity typically involved in setting up disaster recovery and helps you stay compliant by having a business continuity plan in place to keep applications available during a disaster.
Today we are announcing Azure Site Recovery between Azure region’s support for Windows Server 2016 and Storage Spaces.
Windows Server 2016 has seen tremendous adoption on both private clouds as well as on Azure in the few months since the time it became generally available. Azure Site Recovery for Azure virtual machines now supports workloads running on Windows Server 2016 Data center and Windows Server 2016 Data center – server core editions.
Storage spaces is a technology in Windows Server that enables virtualization of storage by grouping disks into storage pools for performance, flexibility and storage scaling. Storage spaces is a commonly utilized configuration on Azure virtual machines to improve input/output performance by striping disks and to create logical disks larger than 4 TB. For example, this is a very common configuration in SQL workloads where need for higher performance and capacity is obvious. Popular Azure gallery templates like SQL Server Always On deploy machines using storage spaces and to meet this need, in the latest release of Azure Site Recovery, we’ve added support for storage spaces so you can have better availability and compliance for your workloads.
Check out our product information to start replicating your IaaS workloads between Azure regions today.
Visit the Azure Site Recovery forum on MSDN for additional information and to engage with other customers or use the ASR User Voice to let us know what features you want.