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ADEDAYO1880
Oct 11, 2025MCT
Replicate workload from VMWare to Azure using Azure Site Recovery(ASR)
Hello,
I am working on a project to replicate worklooad hosted on a VMWare to Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery purpose.
Current Environment:
- More than 80 VMs hosted on VMWare managed by VMWare Sphere running both Linux and Windows OS..
- Databases: Oracle DB, Microsoft SQL and MySQL
Requirements:
- seamless failover and disaster recovery requirements.
- scalable setup
- No down-time
- integrate identity and access mgt. integration with Microsoft Entra ID.
- RTO < 2 hrs and RPO > 15 minutes
- Backup:
- critical database backup every 3 hours
- App servers: Daily*incremental) and weekly (full)
- Transaction Logs: every 10 mins
- backup config. should be Daily
Questions
- I have confirmed ASR supports fail back from Azure- on premise(VMWare specifically). Hence ASR(Azure site recovery) will be used for the project. However, what is the seamless method to replicate the databases(Oracle, Microsoft SQL and MySQL). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/vmware-azure-failback
- What is the best approach to replicate the Application Servers?
- integrating existing on-premise 3rd party network security tool for firewall etc instead of the azure cloud native security tool. recommendation??
- cost optimization techniques/recommendations
- Best practices for conducting non-destructive DR drills.
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