2. Disaster Recovery for SharePoint 2013 with Azure
Neil Hodgkinson
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3. Neil Hodgkinson Pre-Microsoft Microsoft (2005-) Contact
Process Chemist (Drugs, Poisons and Explosives)
CSC SharePoint Specialist – 5 Years
Microsoft (2005-)
SharePoint PFE - 5 Years
SharePoint Service Engineering O Years
Office 365 CXP CAT - Current
MCSM SharePoint Instructor Team
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4. Agenda Disasters and Recovery (DR) DR Terms DR scenarios DR tools
ASR Setup And Configuration
SharePoint specifics

5. Disaster Types
Forecasted event - the impact can be foreseen (such as a weather system event such as a hurricane) and can be mitigated through prior planning.
Un-forecasted event - the organization cannot provide a mitigation plan due to the immediate timing of the event itself (such as an earthquake or cyber security attack) or the realization of previously accepted risk factors.

6. 1 in 4 businesses never re-open their doors after a disaster
4/23/2017
Disaster Recovery
“The process, policies, and procedures that are related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure which are vital to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster.”
Disaster Recovery is about recovering the critical operations that enable the business to function
A company denied access to its mission-critical data for more than 48 hours will likely be out of business within the year
1 in 4 businesses never re-open their doors after a disaster
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7. Define Business Continuity Management
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a management process or program that defines, assesses, and helps manage the risks to the continued running of an organization.
Focuses on creating and maintaining a business continuity plan, which is a roadmap for continuing operations when normal business operations are interrupted by adverse conditions. These conditions can be natural, man-made, or a combination of both.
A disaster scenario is not a business as usual scenario
How long can my business NOT perform this function without suffering

8. Planning and Drivers Multi stage planning process Analyse Define
Document
Implement
Most – Import
TEST it and TEST it again
A business impact analysis
A threat and risk analysis
A definition of the impact scenarios
A set of documented recovery requirements
Solution design or identified options, an implementation plan, a testing and organization acceptance plan, and a maintenance plan or schedule

9. Disaster Recovery Terms
RTO
Recovery Time Objective
Fail over in Minutes. DR Drill each action recorded for total time.
RPO
Recovery Point Objective. How much data loss?
Near-Synchronous as low as 30 second replication.

10. Disaster Recovery Options and Tools
SharePoint Backup/Restore
SQL Server
Log Shipping
Mirroring
Always On Availability Groups
Third Party Options
Azure Site Recovery !

11. ASR – Azure Site Recovery
Replication of Machines based on admin defined policies.
Supported Technologies
SQL AlwaysOn
Hyper V
System Center
VMware VMs to VMware VMs
NetApp/HP/EMC SAN replication
And………..more…..

12. Protect Customer’s Application On-premises to Azure protection with ASR
Orchestration and replication
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Enterprise & HSP primary site
Windows Server
Orchestration and replication
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
SMB & branch primary site
Windows Server
Orchestration and replication
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Enterprise, SMB & HSP primary site
VMware/Physical GA
Use Azure as your replication site
Automated VM protection and replication
Remote health monitoring
Customizable recovery plans
No-impact recovery plan testing
Orchestrated recovery of tiered applications
Replication into Azure for SMBs and remote branch offices without System Center
Key features include:
NEW: Support for heterogeneous environments

13. 4/23/2017
Protect Customer’s Applications On-premises to on-premises protection with ASR
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Communication channel
Replication channel: Hyper-V Replica or SAN replication
Primary site
Windows Server
Recovery site
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Download ASR Scout
Replication and orchestration channel
Primary site
VMware/Physical
Recovery site
VMware
Use customer’s replication site
Automated VM protection and replication
Remote health monitoring
Customizable recovery plans
No-impact recovery plan testing
Orchestrated recovery of tiered applications
Key features include:
NEW: Support for heterogeneous environments
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14. ASR – Azure Site Recovery
Can be Synchronous
Near-Synchronous
Or whatever the business requirement is
Can store way points to restore to.
Single Button TRUE Failover
Paired with System center – Automated
SUPER Cheap insurance

15. ASR – Azure Site Recovery
Costs – mileage will vary
2 WFE, 3 APP, 1 AlwaysOn (2 SQL) = $378 USD month
$54 USD per instance, per month OnPrem-Azure
NO add. costs VMs stored in Storage
Only cost more via IaaS when you fail over
via EA = 100GB storage, 100GB fail back
Other purchased plans don’t include storage
$16 USD per instance, per month OnPrem-OnPrem

16. ASR – Azure Site Recovery
Data Costs
First time Sync FULL VHD needs to be pushed over the wire
After full sync, only deltas are pushed
Only the data used in the VHD (not the virtual size) will be sent to Azure and stored in Azure*
3rd party compression tools are available and more coming

17. ASR – Azure Site Recovery
Connection needed:
Public internet - Default
Site-2-Site VPN
ExpressRoute
Doesn’t actively “support” VHDX yet.
Doesn’t support Gen2 (yet)

18. Physical to Azure Mobility Service auto installed on each physical
Intercepts changes in workloads sends to Process Server
Encrypts and sends changes to Master Target
Writes those changes to the Target committing them to Azure Storage / IaaS
Required: Config Server. Fill in the blanks Azure can build it for you!

19. Physical 2 Azure Requirements
Server 2012 R2, Server or Server 2008 R2 SP1
Hostname, Mount Points, Device Names and system path in English only
OS on C Drive
Firewall open to reach Azure
Max 31 disk protected per server
less than 1023 GB
No Clustered Servers
UEFI not supported
No bitlocker
Server Names 1-63 char.

20. DR Planning - Revisited
Trade-offs between Cost and RPO/RTO
ASR supports all options!
DR with RPO of 5 minutes and RTO of 1 Hour
Leverage ASR Host or Guest based replication for all tiers of the application.
DR with RPO of 5 minutes and RTO of ~30 minutes
Leverage AD replication for AD, SQL Availability Group for SQL and ASR replication for Web and Middle Tiers.
DR with 0 RPO (No data loss)
Leverage SAN based replication support of ASR
Test failover – measure and improve

21. Physical to Azure - Walkthrough
Neil Hodgkinson

22. Step by Step 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Customer selects recovery region
CREATE VAULT 1
View step-by-step guidance
QUICK START 2
A group for servers to represent Site or Branch.
CREATE SITE 3
Register Hyper-V Server
REGISTER 4
Define protection policy
CONFIGURE PROTECTION 5 6
Replicate disks to Azure
PROTECT VIRTUAL MACHINES
Define DR Plan
CREATE RECOVERY PLAN 7 8
Test the deployment
RUN DR DRILL

23. POC Requirements (1 Host)
One Hyper-V 2012 R2 Host
Connectivity to Azure from Host either direct or through proxy
One Azure account – free trial sign-up.
Every ASR Instance you protect is free for 31 days.
Getting started for Branch office to Azure DR recovery-hyper-v-site-to-azure/

24. What about SharePoint?

25. Enable DR of SharePoint server using ASR
Protect your SharePoint Server farm
Each component of the SharePoint farm needs to be protected to enable farm replication and recovery.
Protection of Active Directory
Protection of SQL Tier
Protection of App and Web Tiers
Protection of Search Service Application
Networking configuration

26. Active Directory Replicate AD to Azure
For small environments where failover will be for entire site
Extend AD to secondary site
For more complex environments where partial failover may be required

27. With ASR only, Asynchronous Replication of
SQL Server Databases
Always On Availability Groups
Three availability groups
Content
Search
Services
One availability group can simplify azure deployment
With ASR only, Asynchronous Replication of
Farm Configuration Database
Admin Content Database
FULLY SUPPORTED

28. SharePoint Servers
Configure Virtual Machine Protection

29. Networking
For the App and web tier VMs configure network settings in ASR so that the VM networks get attached to the right DR network after failover.
Ensure the DR network for these tiers is routable to the SQL tier.
White Paper on ASR Networks :

30. Don’t forget to add the cloudapp.net DNS domain as an AAM
For internet facing sites, create an instance of Traffic Manager in the Azure subscription and configure it and your DNS in the following manner.
Where
Source
Target
Public DNS
Public DNS for SharePoint sites
Ex: asrsponprem.obs-test.com
Traffic Manager
contososharepoint.trafficmanager.net
On-premises DNS
sponprem.obs-test.com
<Public IP on the on-premises farm>
Don’t forget to add the cloudapp.net DNS domain as an AAM

31. Restore Search ASR Replication is Asynchronous
SharePoint search requires Database and Index Synchronisation
Must follow search service application backup and restore guidance
Alternative approach is to use new search service application and crawl

32. The Big Picture Failover On Premises Azure 192.168.0.0/24 10.0.0.0/24
S2S
ATM
Database
SQL Always On
Database
SP App
ASR replication
SP App
Public DNS
NAT
Public
EndPoint
Public
EndPoint
SP Web
ASR replication
SP Web
AD DNS
ASR/AD replication
AD DNS

33. Failover and Failback

34. Failover Different Modes Test Planned Unplanned
SharePoint config cache flush – Required for all

35. Test Failover – No impact on Prod
Select Network to fail over to
Validate failover
Mark as complete
Auto cleaned up

36. Planned and Unplanned Select Network to fail over to Validate failover
Unplanned requires confirmation

37. Config Cache Flush

38. Failback Failback SQL Always On Failback ASR Recover Search
Flush Config Cache

39. Wrap Up !

40. Currently Available Application-Aware ASR Solutions
Workload
Hyper-V
VMWare
Site to Site
Site to Azure
AD, DNS Infra
COMING SOON!
Web Apps
IIS
SQL
SCOM
SharePoint
SAP*
Exchange**
COMING SOON
Remote Desktop/VDI
Linux (OS & Apps)
Dynamics AX
CRM
Oracle DB
File Server
Supported and Certified by workload team
Supported – Certification by workload team in process
SAP Site to Azure for un-clustered setups.
Exchange 2013 Non-DAG setups
View based on in-market solutions * **

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