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I'm finally ready yes sorry he's ready you're the problem hi there and welcome to another edition of Tuesdays with Corey I'm here with Suje and he is going to show us some pretty cool technology for enabling enterprises uh small companies anyone to take advantage of disaster recovery solutions normally the type of thing that would be reserved to only the most expensive largest solutions now with a single click you can enable this I have stolen all your thunder now I tell us a little bit about what this is what you're working on and and sort of what what what you're going to show us here today yeah uh hey this this scenario is enabled by a service called azure site recovery azure site recovery is a disaster recovery as a service offering on azure and it supports DR for various scenarios such as on-prem pre-azure date hyper bm where physical service to azure right and we recently announced GA for azure bmdr scenario where you can enable replication to another region and when you can easily bring up the entire application in another region the event of this reference and I want to emphasize that azure is the first public cloud to offer a true native disaster recovery solution and this allows anyone to be a large enterprise or a small small moment pop shop i'm showing visually what you're saying that's that's just so you know what i'm doing but it's to enable easily dr with a single click with no infrastructure no additional compute you can just enable dr and do dr drills whenever you want at your convenience and ensure your company that's awesome so you're telling me let's say you've got some compliance rule or just you'd like to make sure that you're going to be able to fail over you've got an application deployed in east us and you're like look i want to make sure uh that if something goes wrong either with my application or with the region or what have you bat storm i can now fail over to west us right and so even a really you know really bad storm that may impact multiple zones i can still fail over to another region all together and with you know azure having 52 announced regions it's really advantageous to be able to have this capability because you can really take advantage of this in ways that before you'd have to go buy a data center here go buy a data center here and go deploy and buy a lot and now it's just a few clicks is that right exactly so why don't you actually show because i know you set this up you've got you've got it up and running why don't you show us a little bit about what what this looks like and how customers could use it okay sure so this is the very familiar azure vm dashboard and when you go to the left menu you'll see an option for disaster recovery just click on that and within a few seconds is sees the source count configuration for the vm nice little snazzy map here yeah exactly so this map shows you what is your source region what is your target region and what are all the other available target range so you are not limited by a single paid region you can go to any region of your choice based on your business requirements you can see the list of regions here which are allowed so within the us geography can go to any region of your choice and you can see that based on the source configuration the entire target configuration such as what should be my target vm resource group what is what should be my target availability set what should be virtual network and bunch of other settings you can go in the deeper dive if you want to change your storage settings exactly yeah all of these are automatically populated and if you want to customize any of that you can you can do that yeah but if you just leave it to default like we pick the right things yeah just work you just click on enable replication and within a few minutes the initial single start and within a couple of hours the entire data gets synced to the other region exactly so I have yeah it's gonna ask okay great cool I'm not gonna wait a couple hours just to be clear so yeah let's see what you look like you got one already set up exactly so I have vm that is currently replicating to south central us from east us this is the active location is the south central us and now you can easily perform a dr drill in one click by clicking on test failover you have the option to select the virtual network you can select a test virtual network in the dr region and then just click okay and this will start the test failure process and within a few minutes less than three minutes or so the vm should come up in the dr region very good got it so that then if something has gone wrong that's about how long it will take to fail over exactly and that's also roughly about how long sort of the data replication will take right so it's really just about lighting it up and going exactly very cool very cool that's awesome so I have talked about the single vm dr scenario but right most of the enterprise or most of the arts are spanned across multiple course yeah so what can you do for that yeah we have asr has a good feature where called recovery plan which orchestrates the entire failure of the application okay okay so if I jump into the recovery services what recovery services what is the azure resource corresponding to average recovery in which all the metadata the target configuration is stored so if I double click and go to the site recovery of what you can see the monitoring view of the all the vm's that are currently configured for dr as you can see there's six vm's configured for dr right everything is healthy except one vm there is a problem what you need to what action you need to take and this is very important for dr advantage right if you take an enterprise which has 200 300 vm's for them the dr admin comes day in day out into this view just to get a quick summary of a what is going to help my state exactly and if you want to take an action he can take it of course and if recovery plan is the feature I was talking about earlier and we have a recovery plan for a sharepoint application simple sharepoint application comes with three vm's and what with SharePoint as we all know it needs to come up in a specific order it doesn't work right like if you have the SharePoint front end come up without the SQL server without ad it gets a real action yeah exactly that's right yeah so what to solve that problem what we have in recovery plan recovery plan is an orchestration a workflow to sequence various activities for example you can sequence the boot order of the vm's you can sequence that my ad vm has to come up first followed by a SQL or the database vm and followed by my web front end that's awesome not just that we have rich integration with azure automation and you can you can automate yeah you can add scripts very cool so simple example is for example if you want to have a public ip add it to your SharePoint front end it's very easy you have a free available script pre-created for you you can add it okay exactly so basically you so you can run through all these scripts you start ad you start SQL start SharePoint and then you configure the ip and you can make that all scripted so the whole thing and then you can test the whole thing exactly you can test the whole thing so you have it you have a recovery plan pre-created you can validate it as many times as you want and you can be ready for your dr day and if you if really something goes wrong all you have to do is just click one button that's awesome your application comes up in the other region customers will be able to access it that's so cool so I mean this service is great so this is just one g8 yes yes it was announced in June okay got it so just just just a couple months ago so awesome uh you're super powerful you can now do disaster recovery between two regions with a couple clicks you can test it you can configure it to do multiple nodes and you can even run scripts as part of that to make sure you're sequencing it properly and your app comes up and then validate that all just right here in the azure portal built in and the only public cloud to do that yes exactly boom that's awesome hey thank you so much thank you this has been great and really nice work on this thank you if you have questions or you have comments or other things if you'd like to see here you can ask them on hashtag azure twc and we'll both uh jump on those questions and get back to you so come look come look us up on twitter uh and in the meantime we'll keep uh saving the day with disaster recovery thank you thanks go we're good to go sorry that's that's the that's we're very official the cori clap that's right uh i'm going to be wearing the same shirt for a lot of these that works