Don't just RTFM, make sure you're Reading The Latest Version of the Fine Manual
I download and keep Azure reference guides and whitepapers that Microsoft offers occasionally.
While reading about Azure Site Recovery in Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, I was intrigued about this point -
I liked this alert about a ASR limitation as discovering this while in implementation mode would be disappointing if I ran into this scenario.
While searching online for any other detail about ASR, I was stumped to read this in the Azure documentation, Common questions: Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery (04/29/2019):
I checked to see when the Guide was written. It was from 2018.
It reaffirmed a fact I learnt the hard way in the past - if there is information that is striking, verify if the documentation is current. Refer to the latest documentation to look for any breaking changes.
While reading about Azure Site Recovery in Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide, I was intrigued about this point -
Ensure that you create your Recovery Services vault in the same subscription where the Azure VMs are running. You cannot replicate VMs running in one subscription to another subscription.
I liked this alert about a ASR limitation as discovering this while in implementation mode would be disappointing if I ran into this scenario.
While searching online for any other detail about ASR, I was stumped to read this in the Azure documentation, Common questions: Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery (04/29/2019):
...you can replicate Azure VMs to a different subscription within the same Azure AD tenant.
I checked to see when the Guide was written. It was from 2018.
It reaffirmed a fact I learnt the hard way in the past - if there is information that is striking, verify if the documentation is current. Refer to the latest documentation to look for any breaking changes.
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