In this chapter, you learned about ways to protect virtual machines running both on-premises and in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft is frequently adding new features that help to protect applications. Azure Site Recovery is a very interesting service to protect Hyper-V virtual machines without huge investments in data center facilities, hardware, and software.
In the next chapter we are going to learn how physical and virtual servers can be migrated to Azure using various types of tools. Microsoft offers some sophisticated tools that allows us to migrate servers to Azure with very limited downtime.