Azure Site Recovery, a component of Microsoft Operations Management Suite, is now generally available in the Azure portal. Those familiar with Site Recovery from the Azure classic portal will be pleased with the new look, feel, and enhancements. Azure Site Recovery now includes support for Azure Resource Manager–based and classic deployments, as well as support for simultaneously protecting multiple virtual machines (VMs), in System Center Virtual Machine Manager to Azure, Hyper-V Site to Azure, and System Center VMM to System Center VMM using Hyper-V Replica. Additional changes included in this release:

• Azure Resource Manager support for all scenarios
• First-class support for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) subscriptions
• Enhanced VMware to Azure

º New Exclude Disk functionality when replicating VMware VMs to Azure
º Support for Premium Storage for high-churn workloads
• Streamlined Getting Started experience for all Site Recovery scenarios
• New Policy construct for flexible association and management
• Functionality of Backup and Azure Site Recovery in a single vault construct

If you try Operations Management Suite, you can get 31 days of free workload protection with Site Recovery.