Exclude Disk Support comes to Hyper-V VMs with Azure Site Recovery

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Published onDecember 19, 2016

published onDecember 19, 2016

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In a blog post, Microsoft’s Nitin Soneji,current program manager of Cloud and Enterprise,announced the addition of Exclude Disk Support to Hyper-V Virtual Machines (VMs) withAzure Site Recovery (ASR). Based on customer feedback, ASR now gives users to ability to exclude disks from replication.

Soneji indicates that there are two instances where Microsoft customers would need to exclude disks from replication:

Earlier this year, ASR’s VMware to Azure gained this capability. Starting today, ASR’s Hyper-V to Azure will also be getting this capability. Soneji goes on to describe typical scenarios where Microsoft users need to exclude disks from replication:

Similarly, for Microsoft SQL Server with tempdb and system database file on the same disk can be optimized by:

Here’s a Microsoft Channel 9 video showing how to replicate Hyper-V VMs to Azure using ASR.

Microsoft offers a 31-day free trialof ASR’s replication capabilities for any new physical server or virtual machine that you replicate. Offer is open to new and current Microsoft customers with an Azure account. Let Microsoft know what features you want to see next through theASR UserVoiceor solve any issues you have via theMSDN ASR forum.

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