Azure Updates - Latest from Azure Charts

Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Azure VMs with NVMe disk controllers.

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:15:15 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports replication and disaster recovery for Windows Azure Virtual Machines running on NVMe-enabled Generation 2 VM families, such as the Da/Ea/Fa v6-series and Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 in the Azure-to-Azure scenario. This enhancement allows
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Management

Seamless failback for HyperV-to-Azure: Managed Disk support in Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

Azure Site Recovery now enables failback from Azure VMs to on-premises Hyper-V, even if replication from on-premises to Azure happened to storage account and the failed-over Azure VM uses managed disks. Learn more.
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Managed Disks, Categories: Management

Support for Linux major OS upgrades with Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

You can now perform major Linux OS version upgrades — without disabling Azure Site Recovery, interrupting their replication, or losing existing recovery points. This is supported on RHEL and SLES. (e.g. update from RHEL 8 to RHEL 9). This simplifies the O
Update Type: Preview, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Management

Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports up to 5x churn (500 MB/s per VM). This major enhancement empowers customers to confidently run high IOPS workloads with Azure Site Recovery, ensuring robust disaster recovery for even the most demanding applications like d
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Management

Capacity guidance for Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:12 Z

Azure Site Recovery now offers alternative VM Size recommendations during ASR failover when the current target VM Size may have limited allocation availability due to capacity constraints. This feature enhances disaster recovery by providing guidance on s
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Management

Azure Site Recovery support for Ultra Disks

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:30:39 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) support for Virtual Machines with Ultra Disks. This release enables organizations to replicate, failover, and failback virtual machines with Ultra Disks across Azure regions with minimal imp
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Azure Storage, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:30:13 Z

Announcing the General Availability of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks. ASR provides seamless disaster recovery for Virtual Machines across Azure Regions and from on-premises to Azure, helping organizations maintai
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Managed Disks, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Ultra disks

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:00:51 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Ultra disks. ASR provides seamless disaster recovery for Virtual Machines across Azure Regions and from on-premises to Azure, helping organizations maintain business con
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Azure Storage, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Site Recovery Support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs Running Linux OS

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:45:48 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs running Linux OS is Generally Available. Azure Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. This Generally Availa
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Security, Management

Azure Site Recovery Support for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:45:38 Z

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for Virtual Machines with Premium SSD v2 disks. ASR provides seamless disaster recovery for Virtual Machines across Azure Regions and from on-premises to Azure, helping organizations maintain busi
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Managed Disks, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:30:39 Z

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Azure Site Recovery for Shared Disk feature, which enables you to protect, monitor, recover, and re-protect your workloads running on Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) on Azure VMs with Shared D
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Managed Disks, Categories: Features, Management

Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 77 – March 2025

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:45:01 Z

This update provides the following improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Mobility Service – New Linux OS distros for Azure to Azure: OEL 8.10 Alma 8 Alma 9 Ubuntu 2404 Added support for kernels in Linux OS for Azure to
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Services, Management

Azure Site Recovery Support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs Running Linux OS

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:00:04 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs running Linux OS is in public preview. Azure Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. This public preview is
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Security, Management

Azure Site Recovery Pricing Calculator for Azure to Azure Managed Disks

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:00:17 Z

We are excited to announce the availability of the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) Pricing calculator. This new tool helps organizations estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Azure-to-Azure ASR scenarios. The calculator's goal is to achieve detailed co
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Managed Disks, Categories: Features, Services, Management, Pricing & Offerings

Ensure failover capacity at optimal cost with Azure Site Recovery

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:59:00 Z

Update Type: Announcement, Services: Site Recovery, Categories:

Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery recently introduced a new and improved alerting solution based on Azure Monitor. This solution offers multiple benefits such as: Ability to configure notifications to a wide range of notification channelsAbility to select which scenari
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery is on a retirement journey. Migrate to an improved solution using Azure Monitor by Sept 23 2027.
Update Type: Deprecation, Services: Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Retirements

Azure Site Recovery update rollup 75 – August 2024

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

This update provides the following improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.Mobility Service –Added support for Linux OS for:Azure to Azure – No new releases.Modernized VMware/Physical to Azure - No new releases.Learn more abo
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Services

Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 75 – August 2024

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

This update also provides improvement and bug fixes.
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Services

[In development] Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS)

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

We are excited to announce the private preview of Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs. Azure Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. This privat
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS)

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS) is now available for private preview.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery has introduced automatic renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure disaster recovery. Azure Site Recovery uses various components for doing disaster recovery (DR) from on-premises to Azure. Certificates are essential for communi
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Generally Available: Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 Z

Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery.
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Generally Available: Delete or Reset Azure Site Recovery replication appliance

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Learn about Delete or Reset Azure Site Recovery replication appliance
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Services

Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)
Update Type: GA, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so on. You can monitor these alerts via the Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Monitor dashboard, or your Recovery Services vault and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice (Email, ITSM, Webhook, SMS).
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Compliance, Services, Management

Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery is introducing reporting capabilities to enable your BCDR Admin get rich insights into your estate protected with Site Recovery for audit and tracking purposes. These reports are highly customizable and are available out of box on Business Continuity Center, Recovery Service Vault and Backup Center. These reports provide historical evidence on failover jobs and replicated items.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Compliance, Management

Monitor effectively using Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery

Wed, 22 May 2024 07:22:55 Z

As a Backup and Site Recovery Admin, one of your key roles is to be on top of all critical incidents and ensure timely resolution from an outage. Azure Site Recovery now offers an improved alerting solution for Azure Site Recovery on Azure Monitor. This includes default alerts via Azure Monitor, which will enable you to have consistent experience for alert management across different Azure services. With Azure Monitor based alerts, you can route alerts to any notification channel supported by Azure Monitor, such as email, Webhook, Logic app, and more. You can also use other alert management capabilities offered by Azure Monitor, for example, suppressing notifications during a planned maintenance window, correlate alerts, etc.    Benefits of Azure Monitor Ability to configure notifications to a wide range of notification channels - Azure Monitor supports a wide range of notification channels such as email, ITSM, webhooks, logic apps, and so on. You can configure notifications for backup alerts to any of these channels without needing to spend too much time creating custom integrations. Ability to select which scenarios to get notified about - With Azure Monitor alerts, you can choose which scenarios to get notified about. You also have the flexibility to choose whether to enable notifications for test subscriptions or not. Ability to manage alerts and notifications programmatically - You can leverage Azure Monitor’s REST APIs to manage alerts and notifications via non-portal clients as well. Ability to have a consistent alerts management experience for multiple Azure services including backup - Azure Monitor is the established paradigm for monitoring resources across Azure. With the integration of Azure Backup with Azure Monitor, backup alerts can be managed in the same way as alerts for other Azure services without requiring a separate paradigm. Alerts scenarios    Azure Sit
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services, Management

Preview: Introducing Reporting Capabilities for Azure Site Recovery

Wed, 22 May 2024 06:15:24 Z

As a Backup and Disaster Recovery Admin, one of your key roles is to obtain insights on data that spans a long time. Similar to Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery provides a reporting solution that uses Azure Monitor logs and Azure workbooks. These resources will help you get rich insights on your estate protected with Site Recovery. Reporting for azure site recovery will help meet requirements such as: Troubleshooting Auditing of failover and replication Identifying key trends at different levels of granularity Reporting Scenarios Site recovery reports are available to provide historical information on Site Recovery Jobs and, Site Recovery Replicated Items  Site Recovery reports are supported for Azure VM replication to Azure, Hyper-V replication to Azure, VMWare replication to Azure – Classic & Modernized. You can find them as filterable options under Replication Scenario: Azure/ Hybrid.   Pre-requisites for Reports   1. Create a Log Analytics workspace or use an existing one  Set up one or more Log Analytics workspaces to store your reporting data. The location and subscription where this Log Analytics workspace can be created is independent of the location and subscription where your vaults exist. To set up a Log Analytics workspace, see Create a Log Analytics workspace in the Azure portal.  The data in a Log Analytics workspace is kept for 30 days by default. If you want to see data for a longer time span, change the retention period of the Log Analytics workspace. To change the retention period, see Configure data retention and archive policies in Azure Monitor Logs.    2. Configure diagnostics settings for your vaults  Azure Resource Manager resources, such as Recovery Services vaults, record information about site recovery jobs and replicated items as diagnostics data. To configure diagnostics settings for your vaults, follow thes
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Services

Public Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Windows Trusted launch VMs
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Services, Management

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 73 - April 2024

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 Z

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Management

Private Preview: Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS)

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 Z

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Features, Compliance, Management

Private Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 Z

Private preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery.
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Compliance, Management

Protecting Azure VM against Zonal/Regional outages using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:10:22 Z

Guidance for protecting Azure Virtual Machine against Zonal/Regional outages using Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup Summary Disaster Recovery (DR) and Backup are two ways to recover from outages. To ensure that you have the necessary controls to protect your data even when relying on native tools included by your provider, you must get familiar with the platform features, weigh in the cost and benefits, and formulate a data protection strategy that best works for your business. The following provides a summary of choices provided by Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery: You can recover your Azure Virtual Machines and databases against zonal outages by using Azure Backup. In the event of an outage, you can recover to either the secondary availability zone or the secondary paired Azure region, with a RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of approximately 36 hours. You can recover your Azure Virtual Machines against outages by using Azure Site Recovery. In the event of an outage, you can recover to either the secondary availability zone or the secondary Azure region, with a RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of approximately 5 minutes and an RTO (Recovery Time Objective) of less than 1 hour. Outage scenarios and options: Zonal Outage Regional Outage Azure Backup You can protect zone-pinned/non-zone-pinned VM from a vault with Zonal-redundant storage (ZRS) enabled. You can restore an Azure VM from the default zone to other availability zones within that region (Cross Zonal Restore – CZR). You can enable Cross Region Restore (CRR) on vault with GRS redundancy, to get the ability to view the backup items in the secondary region. You can restore an Azure VMs from backed-up data in the secondary region Peven if the primary region is (un)available. Azure Site Recovery Zone-to-Zone disaster recovery option makes it possible to replic
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Virtual Machines, Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Categories: Features

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 70 - December 2023

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 69 - November 2023

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 Z

This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components.
Update Type: GA, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: Features

Public preview: Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 Z

Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management

Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Site Recovery with Azure Stack HCI

Wed, 17 May 2023 22:04:13 Z

In October 2021 we announced the support of Azure Site Recovery to protect virtual machines (VM) workloads on Azure Stack HCI. Based on customer feedback, we have improved the ASR agent deployment experience and now we are excited to announce the Public Preview of the new ASR agent deployment experience as an Arc extension. What is Azure Site Recovery (ASR)? ASR is an Azure service that helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. ASR replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines from a primary site to a secondary location. When an outage occurs at your primary site, you fail over to a secondary location, and access apps from there. After the primary location is running again, you can fail back to it. In case of an outage, you can failover your VM workloads from Azure Stack HCI to Azure and access your VMs on Azure. Once your Azure Stack HCI cluster is running again, you can failback the VM workloads to your Azure Stack HCI cluster. What's new in Public Preview? The ASR agent is now packaged as an Arc extension. From the Azure portal, you can deploy the ASR agent to the nodes of your Azure Stack HCI cluster as an Arc extension. If a node is added at a later point in time, the ASR agent will be automatically deployed to the newly added node, by virtue of it being an Arc extension. This reduces the overhead of needing to install the agent manually on every cluster node and simplifies the steps to prepare the infrastructure prior to protecting your VM workloads. Once the extension is installed, you can leverage the existing ASR flow to protect, failover and failback VMs. There are a few prerequisites to deploy the ASR agent as an Arc extension to the nodes of your Azure Stack HCI cluster: Azure Stack HCI cluster should be registered with Azure and Arc-enabled. If you registered your cluster on or after June 15, 2021, this happens by default. Otherwise, you'll need to ena
Update Type: Preview, Services: Virtual Machines, Site Recovery, Categories: Services

Comprehensive monitoring for Azure Site Recovery now generally available

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0800

A new, intuitive and simplified monitoring experience for Azure Site Recovery is now available through the Azure portal. This blog post introduces the new monitoring experience and shows you how it can help you understand your current disaster recovery posture.
Update Type: Announcement, Services: Site Recovery, Categories: