Azure Site recovery session for ExpertsLive

1. Business Continuity
Azure Site Recovery
Alexandre Verkinderen – Christopher Keyaert

2. Christopher Keyaert
Consultant @ Inovativ Be | SCCDM MVP
christopher.keyaert@inovativ.be
@Keyaertc
Alexandre Verkinderen
Managing Consultant @ Inovativ Be | SCCDM MVP
Alex.verkinderen@inovativ.be
@AlexVerkindere

3. Agenda
■Business Continuity
■Azure Site Recovery
■ASR with Windows Azure Pack
■Inmage
■Capabilities summary

4. Business Continuity Challenges

5. Business Continuity Challenges
Data growth's impact on business continuity
Increasing costs
Too many complications, problems and mistakes
Business
Continuity
Not enough data retention
Time-intensive media management
Untested DR & decreasing recovery confidence
Too much data with insufficient protection

6. Business Continuity Challenges
Bypassing the obstacles
Increasing costs
Too many complications, problems and mistakes
Business
Continuity
Not enough data retention
Time-intensive media management
Untested DR & decreasing recovery confidence
Too much data with insufficient protection
Automate, automate, automate
Tighter integration between systems & availability /
data protection
Eliminate tape management
Achieve cost and operations stability
Increase breadth and depth of continuity protection
Implement testable solutions for data recovery

7. Design principles for enterprise scale DR service

8. Microsoft Solutions for BC & DR

9. Microsoft Solutions
Breadth & depth solutions for business continuity & disaster recovery
Hyper-V Failover
Clustering for VM
Resilience
1
Hyper-V Guest Clustering for app-
level HA, i.e. SQL Server AlwaysOn FCI
2
}Centralized backup with
Data Protection Manager 4
Simplified protection with
Windows Server Backup 3
Integration of WSB/DPM
with Microsoft Azure Backup 5
Orchestrated Physical, Hyper-V &
VMware VM Replication & Recovery
using Azure Site Recovery, between
on-premises locations, or between
on-premises & Microsoft Azure
6

11. Orchestration
and Replication:
InMage Scout
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Primary
Site
InMage
Scout
Orchestration
and Replication:
Hyper-V Replica,
SQL AlwaysOn
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Primary
Site
Hyper-V
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Orchestration
Channel
Replication
channels:
Hyper-V Replica,
SQL AlwaysOn,
SAN
Primary
Site
Hyper-V
Recovery
Site
Hyper-V
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Orchestration
and
Replication
channel:
InMage Scout
Primary
Site
VMware /
Physical
Recovery
Site
InMage
Scout
InMage
Scout
Key features include:
Automated VM protection and replication
Remote health monitoring
Near zero RPO
No-impact recovery plan testing
Customizable recovery plans
Minimal RTO – few minutes to hours
Orchestrated recovery when needed
Replicate to – and recover in – Azure
Heterogeneous physical and virtual support
On-premisesto Azureprotection
(Site-to-Azure)
VMware /
Physical
VMware /
Physical
Download
InMage Scout
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Azure Site Recovery
One solution for multiple infrastructures

12. Site to Site recovery with ASR

13. Extensible Data Channel
(Hyper-V Replica, SQL
Always-ON)
Azure Site Recovery

14. How it works: configure
Sign up
Create a recovery plan
Site A
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
AD
SQL
Exch
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
Site B

15. How it works: create recovery plan
Hyper-V Replica
replicates virtual
machines
Health
monitoring
Create a recovery plan
Create
recovery
plan
Site A
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
AD
SQL
Exch
Configure
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
Site B

16. How it works: recover from datacenter failure
Create a recovery plan
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
Site B
Create
recovery
plan
Orchestrates recovery
of services in the
event of an outage
AD
SQL
Exch

17. Site to Azure recovery via ASR

18. Extensible Data Channel
Hyper-V Recovery Manager
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Microsoft Azure
Compute Storage Networks

19. How it works: create recovery plan
Hyper-V Replica
replicates virtual
machines
Create a recovery plan
Create
recovery
plan
Site A
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager
AD
SQL
Exch
Configure

20. Site to Azure setup – Demo

21. Unit that fails over together
• Defines a collection of VM
that will be recovered
together.
• Typically models an
application.
Dependency modelling
• Specify the order in which the
VMs of a recovery plan need
to be booted by using
groups.
• VMs of same group failover in
parallel.
• Shutdown is in reverse order
of recovery to ensure 0 data
loss.
Extensible Recovery plans
• Add custom actions to a
recovery plan in between the
groups.
Value Props of Recovery plan

22. Test Failover
• Recover the VM to
Azure without
affecting the primary
site workload.
• VM can come up in
an isolated
environment.
Planned Failover
• Recover VM by safely
turning off the VM
on the primary site
and sending latest
changes.
• Ensures 0 data loss.
• VM boots up on
Azure. Active
location changes to
Microsoft Azure.
Unplanned Failover
Without primary site
operations
• Recover VM when
the primary site is no
longer reachable.
• May have data loss.
• VM boots up on
Azure. Active
location changes to
Microsoft Azure.
Unplanned failover
with primary site
operations
• Attempts to
shutdown VM and
send latest changes.
• If attempt fails, goes
ahead with the
recovery to ensure
better RTO.
Recovery Actions

23. Recovery Plan – Demo

24. ASR - Supported configuration and
Pricing

25. Supported Configuration
Host operating system Windows Server 2012 R2
Guest operating system
Windows Server 2008 R2 or later
Linux: Centos, openSUSE, SUSE, Ubuntu
Guest operating system architecture 64-bit
Operating system disk size Between 20 MB and 127 GB
Operating system disk count 1
Data disk count
16 or less (the maximum is a function of the size of
the virtual machine being created. 16 = XL)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/dn469078.aspx

26. Supported Configuration (2)
Data disk VHD size Between 20 MB and 1023 GB
Network adapters One adapter and one IP address
Static IP address Not supported
iSCSI disk Not supported
Shared VHD Not supported
FC disk Not supported
Hard disk format
VHD
VHDX (supported on generation 1 only)
Virtual machine namea
Should contain between 1 and 63 characters. Restricted
to letters, numbers, and hyphens. The name must start
with a letter or number and end with a letter or
number.
Virtual machine type Generation 1

27. Pricing http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/site-recovery/

28. ASR with Windows Azure Pack

29. Source: Hyper-V Workloads Target: Hyper-V Workloads
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
HSP Data Center 1 /
CPS Stamp 1
HSP Data Center 2 /
CPS Stamp 2
DR OrchestrationDR Orchestration
Microsoft Azure Pack Integration
Extensible Data
Channel

30. Microsoft Azure Pack Integration
■ Available with Azure Pack Update Release 4
■ DR as a Plan/Add-On property on VM clouds
■ SMA runbooks
■ To auto-create recovery site subscription when Tenant subscribes to DR on primary
■ To enable/disable DR protection for all present and future created VMs in subscription
■ Full integration of replica VMs with recovery site Azure
Pack
■ Tenants can manage (start/stop/console or desktop connect) failed over replica VMs on
recovery site Azure Pack

31. Tenant Isolation for HSP to Azure

32. SCVMMMicrosoft Azure Pack
Tenant 1 Subscription
HSP Management
Subscription
HSP
Billing
Account
VM Replication
DRP
DR Orchestration
HSP Data Center Microsoft Azure
Failover
Hosted Workloads to Azure – Tenant Isolation
Tenant 2 Subscription
Tenant 1
Tenant 2
Tenant 2 Tenant 1
VM Replication

33. Hosted Workloads to Azure – Tenant Isolation
■ HSP owns the billing of Azure subscriptions
■ HSP creates management subscription in which ASR vault is created and HSP
SCVMM is registered
■ Tenants do not have access to management subscription
■ HSP creates new Azure subscription per tenant and makes tenant co-admin on it
■ Tenant VM replicates to the Storage Account in subscription created for tenant
■ Given managed DR focus, DR drills are triggered by HSP on behalf of tenants
■ During failover to Azure, VM instance comes up in Azure subscription created for
tenant

34. Disaster Recovery with InMage

35. Contoso Primary Location
(On-Premises/Service Provider)
Source: VMware vSphere VMs
& Physical Servers
Heterogeneous Disaster Recovery
for VMware vSphere-based VMs & Physical Servers with InMage Scout
Process
Server
Contoso Secondary Location
(On-Premises/Service Provider)
Target: VMware vSphere VMs
Config
Server
Master
Target
InMage
Scout
Data
Channel
Download
InMage
Scout
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Download
InMage
Scout
Process Server – Used for Caching,
Compression & Encryption
Config Server – Used for Centralized
Management of InMage Scout
Master Target – Used as a
repository & for retention

36. Microsoft Azure
InMage
Scout
Data
Channel
Microsoft Azure
Site Recovery
Process Server – Used for
Caching, Compression &
Encryption
Config Server – Used for
Centralized Management
of InMage Scout
Master Target – Used as
a repository & for
retention
for VMware & Physical into Azure with ASR & InMage Scout (Future)
Contoso
Fabrikam
RX Server – Used for
multi-tenant
management in Azure
RX Server
Orchestration
Orchestration

37. InImage Demo

46. Summary

47. Capabilities summary
■ At scale configuration
■ Compute, storage and network
■ Variable RPO to meet needs of various apps
■ Azure VM auto-sized based on size of on-premises VM
■ User can change per needs
■ Data resides in customer storage
■ Stored securely using encryption
■ Automated failovers – test, planned and unplanned
■ Failback as first class gesture
■ Rich application level recovery
■ Dependency groups
■ Manual actions

48. Why recover to Azure?
■ Azure ROI
■ On premises cost three times higher
■ 68% annual savings
■ Get async replication as frequently as 30s for great RPO
■ You can self-service for all failovers
■ Resources guaranteed for failover to succeed
■ Supported in a geo near you
■ Integrate the public cloud into your DC

49. ASR Resources
■ Pricing Guide
■ Planning Guide
■ Capacity Planner Tool
■ Deployment Guide
■ Configuration Tutorials
■ WAN Optimization with Riverbed
■ InMage Website
■ ASR MSDN Forum
■ Azure Feedback Forum – ASR User Voice
■ ASR Wiki

50. Thank you!