Configure failover and failback
ASR provides flexible failover and failback capabilities, enabling you to failover applications to Azure or to a secondary site, and failback the application to the primary site once connectivity is restored. As part of your DR plan and testing, you can run test failovers to review and validate your DR strategy and plan, with no loss of data or downtime. You can also run planned failovers for planned outages with no data loss, or unplanned failovers with minimal data loss for unexpected disasters.
Getting ready
Before performing a failover, test your failover plan to validate your DR strategy without any downtime. ASR enables you to run a test failover without any data loss. You can run a test failover for a single VM or for a recovery plan.
In order to test your failover plan, you will need to determine the network settings to use for the replica VM(s). When performing a test failover, you have the option of testing to a non-production network on a recovery...
