You're reading from Learn Azure Administration Explore cloud administration concepts with networking, computing, storage, and identity management

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837636112

Length 346 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Kamil Mrzygłód

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Introduction to Azure for Azure Administrators

2. Chapter 1: Azure Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Basics of Infrastructure as Code

4. Part 2: Networking for Azure Administrator

5. Chapter 3: Understanding Azure Virtual Networks

6. Chapter 4: Exploring Azure Load Balancer

7. Part 3: Administration of Azure Virtual Machines

8. Chapter 5: Provisioning Azure Virtual Machines

9. Chapter 6: Configuring Virtual Machine Extensions

10. Chapter 7: Configuring Backups

11. Chapter 8: Configuring and Managing Disks

12. Part 4: Azure Storage for Administrators

13. Chapter 9: Configuring Blob Storage

14. Chapter 10: Azure Files and Azure File Sync

15. Chapter 11: Azure Storage Security and Additional Tooling

16. Part 5: Governance and Monitoring

17. Chapter 12: Using Azure Policy

18. Chapter 13: Azure Monitor and Alerts

19. Chapter 14: Azure Log Analytics

20. Chapter 15: Exploring Network Watcher

21. Index

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Exploring Azure Site Recovery

The last topic of this chapter is a service called Azure Site Recovery. It’s part of Azure Recovery Services, which we already discussed when talking about Azure Backup for our workloads. While backups allow us to provide improved security for VMs and databases, Azure Site Recovery is meant to grant us the possibility to provide BC in case of unexpected failures. We’ll discuss various options when it comes to recovering from outages and prerequisites to achieve continuity.

Replication

When talking about BC, we need to consider how our workloads are replicated. Replication is a process that will be performed automatically for most scenarios (especially in active-active architectures) and should ensure that we have a working environment we can migrate to. There are three different possibilities when thinking about replication: