Azure Site Recovery

What Azure Site Recovery is

Azure Site Recovery is a hybrid recovery service for protecting virtual machines and physical servers. Supported workloads include Azure VMs, VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Windows physical servers, and Linux physical servers. It provides failover orchestration, failback orchestration, test failover, and recovery runbooks, with a stated recovery point objective of 0.5 minutes. The web service offers two listed plan destinations: protecting an instance to customer-owned sites or protecting an instance to Azure. Each plan covers one protected instance, and neither has a listed price. Azure Site Recovery is paid and includes a 31-day trial, but no free plan is listed. Its hybrid deployment model fits recovery arrangements spanning Azure and customer-owned environments. The service is associated with a founding year of 1975 and headquarters in Redmond, Washington, United States. Teams can use test failover to rehearse recovery, then use orchestration and runbooks for failover and subsequent failback. The destination choice distinguishes the two listed plans.

Who it suits

It suits teams protecting supported virtual machines or physical servers across Azure and customer-owned environments. It is relevant when failover testing, orchestration, and runbooks are part of recovery planning.

Limits

The service has no free plan. Each listed plan covers one protected instance, and the trial lasts 31 days.

Getting started

1. Open the Azure Site Recovery website
2. Use the web-based service
3. Select recovery to customer-owned sites or to Azure
4. Choose a plan covering one protected instance
5. Start the 31-day trial

Verdict

Azure Site Recovery provides coordinated protection and recovery for several virtual and physical server types. Its two destination plans clarify deployment choices, while the 31-day trial allows evaluation before paid use.