Disaster Recovery (part 1 of 4)

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Azure Site Recovery

Replicate VMs

You must follow the guidance in replicate a Virtual Machine to Azure to easily replicate Azure VMs to the Azure region serving as the disaster recovery site, which is available at https://docs/microsoft/com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-walkthrough-enable-replication

  • To protect Active Directory and DNS, you can refer to Protect Active Directory and DNS document available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-active-directory
  • To protect database tier running on SQL server, you can refer to Protect SQL Server document available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-active-directory

Configure Networking

If you are using a static IP address, you can easily specify the IP address that you want the VM to take as a part of its Azure Site Recovery settings.

Create a recovery plan

It supports the easy sequencing of various tiers in a multi-tier application during a failover and while creating the plan, you have to complete the steps mentioned in Create a recovery planby using Site Recovery available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-create-recovery-plans

Add VMs to failover groups

Generate a recovery plan with the help of an application server, web dispatcher, and SAP Central Services VMs.

Add scripts to the recovery plan

For correct functioning of your applications, you may have to perform some operations on the Azure VMs after the failover or during a test failover and by automating some post-failover operations, the most commonly used Azure Site Recovery Scripts can be deployed into an Automation account. Similarly, you can also add a post action script to attach a load balancer on the failed over Azure VMs.

Run a test failover

  1. In the Azure portal, select your Recovery Services vault.
  2. Select the recovery plan that you created for SAP applications.
  3. Select Test Failover.
  4. To start the test failover process, select the recovery point and the Azure virtual network.
  5. When the secondary environment is up, perform validations.
  6. When validations are complete, to clean the failover environment, select Cleanup test failover.

Run a failover

  1. In the Azure portal, select your Recovery Services vault.
  2. Select the recovery plan that you created for SAP applications.
  3. Select Failover.
  4. To start the failover process, select the recovery point.





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