Microsoft Azure Disaster Recovery
Fast track the deployment, configuration, and testing of Azure Site Recovery in your Microsoft Azure tenant.
OVERVIEW
Business continuity is not optional, it’s essential. As your Azure Cloud Solution Provider, we’re offering a turnkey service to deploy Azure Site Recovery (ASR) into your existing Azure environment. This ensures your workloads are protected against outages, ransomware incidents, or regional disasters with minimal downtime and data loss.
With ASR, your critical workloads can be replicated from on-premises or Azure-based virtual machines to a secondary Azure region. In the event of a disruption, failover can be initiated in minutes, keeping your business running.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Minimize Downtime: Rapid failover to Azure ensures applications remain available.
- Protect Against Data Loss: Continuous replication reduces Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
- Reduce DR Costs: No need for secondary data centers or excess hardware.
- Simplified Management: Integrated with Azure Portal for centralized monitoring and control.
- Compliance & Security: Meets global standards for encryption, retention, and access control.
Timeline
- Typical deployment for 5–20 workloads is 1–2 weeks, depending on complexity, source location, and replication bandwidth.
Prerequisites
- Active Azure subscription under CSP
- Identified workloads and priority list
- Required network connectivity between source and Azure
- Available storage and network capacity in target region
Pricing Model
- Fixed Implementation Fee based on number of workloads and complexity
- Azure consumption charges for storage and failover VMs are billed separately under your CSP agreement
Scope of Service
Discovery & Assessment
- Review current infrastructure of Azure workloads
- Identify critical applications, VMs, and dependencies
- Determine RPO/RTO targets based on business priorities
- Network topology review for replication readiness
Design
- Define failover and failback strategies
- Select target Azure regions
- Design virtual network failover architecture
- Prepare runbooks for automated recovery
Deployment
- Configure Azure Site Recovery vault
- Enable replication for selected workloads
- Test failover to validate readiness
- Configure alerts and monitoring in Azure Monitor/Log Analytics
Knowledge Transfer & Documentation
- Deliver DR runbook and recovery plan documentation
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Train your IT team on failover and failback processes
Deliverables
- ASR Vault Deployment & Configuration
- Replication & Failover Setup for agreed workloads
- Disaster Recovery Runbook
- Post-Deployment Test Report
- Knowledge Transfer Session (1–2 hours)
Optional Add-Ons
- Quarterly DR drills
- On-premises workloads to scope
- Integration with Azure Backup for long-term retention
- Application-aware replication for SQL, SAP, and other critical workloads
- Multi-region resiliency design
