Disaster recovery
CoreAzure Site Recovery
Replication, recovery plans, test failover, failover, and reprotection.
Key points
- Replicates supported workloads to a recovery location for business continuity.
- Supports test failover, planned or unplanned failover, commit, reprotection, and failback workflows.
- Target networking, capacity, dependencies, and recovery plans determine usable application recovery.
Best-known use cases
- Fail over critical Azure VMs to a secondary region.
- Test a disaster-recovery plan without affecting production.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Site Recovery vs Backup: orchestrated replicated workload recovery vs restore from retained points.
- Failover vs restore: start a replica in the target vs reconstruct historical state.
Key takeaway
Use Site Recovery for supported workloads that need orchestrated regional continuity, and test the complete recovery path.
Related services
- Recovery Services vault
- Backup vault
- Azure Backup
Relevant exam tasks
- D5.2.S1 — Create a Recovery Services vault
- D5.2.S2 — Create an Azure Backup vault
- D5.2.S3 — Create and configure a backup policy
- D5.2.S4 — Perform backup and restore operations by using Azure Backup
- D5.2.S5 — Configure Azure Site Recovery for Azure resources
- D5.2.S6 — Perform a failover to a secondary region by using Site Recovery
- D5.2.S7 — Configure and interpret reports and alerts for backups