Everpure Cloud Dedicated for Azure along with Azure Site Recovery provides a simple and cost-effective replication approach for Pure Customers with an on-premises FlashArray and VMware environment. This approach offers a unique hybrid-cloud environment for the data to be mobile and live anywhere.
The simplicity and the cost-effectiveness of this solution comes from combining both Everpure Cloud Dedicated array-based replication which reduces the total bandwidth preserving dedupe and compression on the wire, and ASR advanced near-constant block data replication and failover and failback functionality
For this solution, both Azure ASR and Everpure Cloud Dedicated will be configured to continuously replicate the on-premises VMs to Azure. This offers the ability to failover to a newly provisioned Azure VM instance on-demand and failback accordingly. Azure ASR first replicates the boot disk/volume to reside on Azure storage account. Once the initial sync is complete, ASR handles the instantiation of the instance (Azure VM) and attaches the boot volume to it. Within the same process, ASR works on excluding the data volumes prior to the replication being initiated. Those data volumes are replicated using the built-in Pure replication between FlashArray and Everpure Cloud Dedicated, and can be mounted using in-guest iSCSi to the created instance.