Recovery if a disaster happens - Azure Site Recovery?

[dobbyit]

We have been reviewing what to do if we have a disaster (fire, electrical, server fail etc). I have come accross Azure Site Recovery solution - does anybody use - what are the benefits and do you have Site Recovery enabled on all your VMs?

 

We backup all our VMs in Veeam onsite to the NAS box and offsite to Azure - We have 3 physical servers with 11VMs as we use thin clients for children.

Could I put Azure Site recovery agent on 2 of the VMS - VM1 - where SIMS, Finance are stored, VM2 - where staff shared and personal files are stored - the reason being is these are the two VMS we class that we could not operate a school on if we had a fire. All other servers are a bonus really, brokers, RDS, ubqitiy. Ideally we would like to be able to access data on sims and staff documents as soon as possible.

 

Is Azure site recovery worth it? Is it the right solution? What other solutions are worth considering?

[chaplic]

I quite like Azure Site Recovery and it really comes into it's own if you can stand the recovered machines up with the same IP address (stretched VLAN) then you can do quite cool things too. Azure Migrate (MS solution to move your VMs to Azure) uses Azure site recovery under-the-skin.

 

If you were going to do it, would be putting ASR on all your boxes and also figuring out how to connect to them in the event of complete loss