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Azure Site Recovery's SAN-shuffling VM DR aid goes live

Redmond takes cloudy control of replication and DR, to help Hyper-V hang tough

The Azure-Site-Recovery-powered SAN snapshot wrangler Microsoft previewed last year at TechEd Europe has reached General Availability status.

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can now work with System Centre Virtual Machine Manager to coordinate the failover of their storage between sites. ASR and System centre use SMI-S- to reach and out touch arrays and bend them to Microsoft's will.

That's no bad thing: The Word of Redmond is actually your word, as you use the cloudy service to establish DR plans that kick into action when the unthinkable happens.

One scenario is using the service to move workloads among on-premises SANs in the event of problems. Another is to replicate VMs into Azure or another cloud, so they can be run there if your own bit barn suffers a misfortune.

News that the service is now official gives Hyper-V a nice DR story to match VMware's site recovery manager.

It also gives Microsoft a nice little earner: it charges Azure's SAN-shuffling DR aid goes live Redmond takes cloudy control of replication and DR The Azure-Site-Recovery-powered SAN snapshot wrangler Microsoft previewed last year at TechEd Europe has reached General Availability status.

Is that cheaper than licences for backup and recovery software? Microsoft's told your correspondent a hypothetical reseller that works with the likes of CommVault or Veeam, and an array vendor, has no need to feel threatened by ASR. But of course Microsoft would say that, wouldn't it? ®

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