We are happy to announce that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now provides you the ability to setup Disaster Recovery (DR) for IaaS VMs using managed disks. With this feature, ASR fulfills an important requirement to become an all-encompassing DR solution for all of your production applications hosted on laaS VMs in Azure, including applications hosted on VMs with managed disks.
Managed disks provide several advantages including simplification of storage management and guaranteeing industry-leading durability and availability for disk storage.
Read about it in the Azure blog.