Planning Disaster Recovery, Migration and More

The Discussion

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  I can't ask questions in the live sessions :( but thought I ask here

  with SAN replication (which is in preview), are you focusing on a SAN technology standard or partnering up with SAN vendors to add Azure as a replication destination?

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  Hi - SCVMM integrates with storage arrays through SMI-S - Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), and you can find more details of that here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610600.aspx - With your SAN under management, VMM can perform tasks such as LUN provisioning, zoning, deletion of LUNs, cloning, snapshotting etc, but it is up to the Storage Vendor to expose their capabilities, and we work closely with a large number of them to integrate the solution.  As you can see here, https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16100.supported-storage-arrays-for-system-center-2012-vmm.aspx, there are a number of storage arrays that are integrated with VMM, however, for SAN Replication specifically, as we're still in preview, that list is smaller, here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28317.deploying-azure-site-recovery-with-vmm-and-san-supported-storage-arrays.aspx but it will grow as we move forward.

  We can't talk about future plans for replication into Azure for the SAN rep scenario I'm afraid - today, SAN rep is between 2 on-premises locations, and replication from on-premises into Azure is powered by the Hyper-V Replica engine, and in 2015, for VMware environments, the InMage Scout engine will allow VMware to Azure replication and recovery. 

  Hope that helps!

  Matt