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Replicate an Azure virtual machine

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Replicate an Azure virtual machine

- [Instructor] Not only can you protect your virtual machines on physical hosts, but you can also use Azure site recovery to protect your Azure virtual machines. You can replicate your virtual machines to another region, providing business continuity by keeping your apps up and running during unplanned and planned outages. The process of replicating a virtual machine to another region is incredibly simple, and I'll show you how to do it now. As you can see, we've logged into Azure, and we're looking at the overview for a virtual machine called "Source." In order to configure replication, you'll need to scroll down to operations and then disaster recovery. And you'll notice that it states that this is in preview. As of today's recording date in late February 2018, it is in preview. Now we can go ahead and set up the replication. The first thing we need to do is set our target region. And again, you can pick and choose as is. Next, we can go ahead and select the target VM resource…

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