Updated: February 23, 2022 (December 19, 2020)

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Azure Site Recovery Workload Support

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Azure Site Recovery supports a range of applications, regardless of the failover model.

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Updated: July 24, 2020 (January 3, 2019)

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Azure Site Recovery Workload Support

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Wes Miller

Wes Miller analyzes and writes about Microsoft’s security, identity management, and systems management technologies. Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Wes... more

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can be used with most Microsoft applications and many third-party applications. Most applications use their own native technologies to enable protection of the application, like SQL Server Always On Availability Groups. Certain roles, like Linux servers running applications, and SAP are tested for use with ASR by Microsoft itself. The chart here lists the applications supported for use with ASR, regardless of whether ASR is being used in an Enterprise site to Enterprise site (E2E), Enterprise site to an Azure region (E2A), or Azure region to Azure region (A2A), and whether Hyper-V or VMware are used as the host hypervisor on-premises.

Role or Application Supported
Dynamics AX Yes
Exchange Server (not DAG) Yes
Linux (with applications) Yes, tested by Microsoft
Remote Desktop Services or VDI Yes
SAP Yes, tested by Microsoft
SharePoint Server Yes
SQL Server (stand-alone, clustered, or Always On Availability

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