New Cloud Disaster Recovery Benefit for Azure SQL Virtual Machines

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Published

Jan 22, 2020

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • January 2020
    General Availability

Product

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Tag

Features
Pricing & Offerings

Category

Compute
Databases

Description

Every Software Assurance customer of SQL Server now can use three enhanced benefits for any SQL Server release that is still supported by Microsoft:

Failover servers for high availability – Allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server instances in a separate operating system environment (OSE) or server for high availability on-premises in anticipation of a failover event. 

Failover servers for disaster recovery - NEW – Allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server instances in a separate OSE or server on-premises for disaster recovery in anticipation of a failover event

Failover servers for disaster recovery in Azure - NEW – Allows customers to install and run passive SQL Server instances in a separate OSE or server for disaster recovery in Azure in anticipation of a failover event

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