recovery-plans

name	recovery-plans
description	ASR recovery plans — multi-VM ordering, scripts, manual gates

Recovery Plans

When to use this skill

• Multi-tier app needs ordered recovery
• Coordinating with DB failover

Key concepts

• Group VMs into groups that fail over in sequence (1–7).
• Add manual actions (e.g. 'DBA confirms DB failover complete').
• Pre/post scripts are Azure Automation runbooks — modify DNS, attach LB, run smoke tests.
• Test the recovery plan exactly as it would run in real failover; partial tests miss timing bugs.
• Version the plan in source control (export JSON) and keep in sync with deployments.

Common pitfalls

• Putting too many VMs in one group — parallel failover storms saturate ASR.
• Not testing scripts in the test-failover network — they fail in real DR.
• Drift between deployed VMs and recovery plan inclusions.

References

• Microsoft Learn: search for "Recovery Plans Azure VM" on https://learn.microsoft.com

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