I have been looking into this lately to find no available solution for Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery solution that is native. Do you people think that it is completely fair to trust the Azure cloud to take care of the risks that a disaster brings in? Does it even make sense to setup a replication inside the Azure environment for Azure VMs? If so what are the available options and any direction is appreciated!
Coming from a fully managed solution, I think Azure is not giving us more options here for an IaaS environment setup.
My Research so far on this
Azure Site Recovery:
Only the following scenarios are supported. Not Azure-to-Azure.
- Azure-Hyper-V site
- Azure-VMM server
- Azure-Physical Windows server
- Azure-VMware virtual machine
- Secondary datacenter-VMM server
- Secondary datacenter-VMM server with SAN
- Secondary datacenter-Single
VMM server
High Availability:
- Available only for HA Application server VMs.
- The only promise is "Data is durable". The end user is responsible for reconnection.
Azure Backup:
- Encrypted backups.
- Not possible to failover by setting up a redundant infrastructure.
- Not an ideal solution for an IaaS failover.
Answer
Assuming I'm reading you right, there are things like Azure Site Recovery, HA, Azure Backup, zone and geo redundant storage, etc.
Recommended reading:
Azure Business Continuity Technical Guidance
Disaster Recovery and High Availability for Azure Applications
If you would like a possible workaround for now you can follow this blog post: https://bnehyperv.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/site-recovery-protection-between-on-premises-vmware-virtual-machines-or-physical-servers-and-microsoft-azure/
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