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Azure Site Recovery Primary Use Case

AP
IT Manager at NTT DATA

The main use case for Azure Site Recovery is for disaster recovery. Site Recovery has been in use for almost five to six years. We use these services for DR configuration and disaster recovery.

Replication happens when you have a primary site. The primary site will be replicated to the other side with minimal downtime. We can transfer the data from one region to another region when any disaster happens. That is the reason Microsoft provides us with a 99.95% SLA.

If you have a physical server in your city or country and any disaster happens, you have to switch from your primary to secondary site. If you have hardware, you also have to pay for cooling and resource charges. In Azure, nothing is there; you simply create the DR site, enable replication from primary to secondary. Whenever you require, you can do a quarterly, half-yearly, or monthly failover test as per your business or project requirement.

There is an option to install the agent, establish the communication from your on-premises to cloud, and you can use Azure Site Recovery as well. A major benefit is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. The secondary option is the Recovery Services Vault.

Recovery Services Vault will act the same, but there is no way to perform the DR drills. Recovery Services Vault only takes the backup of your virtual machines.

If you set up a physical device, you obviously have to purchase physical devices and resources, but here you only hire one administrator who can configure it without making any noise or taking support from multiple resources.

I am not sure about these improvements because I have been using these services for a long period. It is quite good, and I have not found any negative thoughts on that service.

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JN
Client Relationship Manager at Infomag
I work as a System Integrator and Microsoft partner. I use Azure Site Recovery as part of our organization's disaster recovery plan to manage customers' data backup and recovery. View full review »
reviewer2698704 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Our organization used Azure Site Recovery because we could not afford for our site to be down for a long time. We hosted our core client-facing and advisor-facing engine on it. It was crucial for us to maintain uptime, so we conducted regular drills to ensure we could recover the site if it failed. View full review »
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RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

We migrated around seventy on-prem servers to Azure via Site Recovery for one of our projects. We use it in our disaster recovery site, and we perform this process every three months.

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SJ
Vice President of Delivery & Deployment at TekFriday Inc

My main use case for Azure Site Recovery is that we are doing cross-region disaster recovery and processing.

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Rafael Veloso - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at SoftwareONE

When you have a large environment with applications and site databases structured in layers such as program, business layer, and database layer, it is crucial to have a secondary strategy in place. This involves running a secondary site in a different location, possibly in another country within the same region, ensuring continuity and enabling a robust disaster recovery plan to address any issues that may arise.

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Mike Douthitt - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at Douthitt.net

In my company, I use the solution as a simple tool for backup and not for restoration purposes. My company is in the phase of conducting some simple and quick testing.

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YO
IT infrastructure and services at United Bank for Africa

We use the tool for business continuity purposes. 

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Dani Bachour - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Hariss International

We use Azure Site Recovery to duplicate our on-premises virtual machines to Azure. This ensures a backup in case of a disaster. If something goes wrong, we can quickly switch to the replicated VMs in Azure, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime.

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reviewer1513167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead , Enterprise Computing Platforms at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use Azure Site Recovery for our disaster recovery and business continuity purposes.

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Rajesh Patel Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). We have an infrastructure in Azure and we want to be able to spin up critical infrastructure in case of failures. We have not yet tested this in the cloud, but we have created a backup plan to ensure we are prepared for any potential failures.

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Deepak Kumar Software - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Rishabh Software

We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry. 

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Muhammad Saad Zahoor - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our data was on VMware VM, and we used Azure Site Recovery to replicate all data into Azure.

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ElsayedAboelnaga - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Target

We use the tool as a backup for our environment. 

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AC
Works at Lab2021

Customers are interested in utilizing a BI engine for data recovery. While they initially provided their entire recovery, there have been instances where they considered switching to another solution. For certain customers, they opt not to cover the entire hardware or use Cisco cybersecurity, which might not be the case.

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SM
Enterprise architect at Kapsch

The primary use case of this solution is for disaster recovery. I'm an enterprise architect. 

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MikeChacker - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Global Service Delivery at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We back up our site to it and use it for a VR. We are using the most up to date version of this solution.

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Sujit Suryavanshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager - IT at Logixal

I primarily use Site Recovery to back up our site server.

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it_user1295826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Sales Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Primary use case really depends on the client. The product can be used by insurance companies, hospitals, healthcare professionals. We mainly use the product for backup and disaster recovery and it's suitable for small and medium enterprise companies. 
It's used occasionally, not on a daily basis. We are in partnership with Microsoft and I work as a senior sales solution architect. 

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reviewer1271010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery for our organization.

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reviewer1508952 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We use the solution primarily for migrations, backup and BCP.

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Fernando Cordero - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Officer at GikBrain

We use this solution mainly for compliance and to a DR and a commitment in RTO and RPO.

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reviewer2256900 - PeerSpot reviewer
Design and Innovation Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We use Azure Site Recovery primarily for disaster recovery to Azure or from Azure, while Veeam is used for data center recovery.

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