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Copper Contributor

Feb 10, 2017

Using Azure as an HA/DR site for SQL 2016

I wonder if anyone has dabbled with this concept, or if it is economically viable to my customer, which is a "little big shop" that would like to spend $-- for SQL HA and/or DR (probably the latter i...

Christian Araujo

MCT

Sep 28, 2017

Hi,

You can use Azure as HA/DR that is the idea of the Hybrid infrastructure and SQL 2016 supports that type of environment, of course, you will need to work on some items before, but this two docs online will help validate if your environment qualifies to implement this Hybrid scenario:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sqlclassic/virtual-machines-windows-classic-sql-onprem-availability

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/use-the-add-azure-replica-wizard-sql-server

Hope it works.