Hello,

we plan a complete DR Site in Azure using ASR for a customer of ours.

We need to failover some VMs containing SQL Server as well. At the moment the customer don't want to use AlwaysOn as a hybrid solution because the costs for running a SQL Server in Azure seems to be to high for him.

As ASR uses a kind of Hyper-V Replica mechanism it should be possible to use ASR for a SQL Server as long as you follow the best practice for using Hyper-V Replica with SQL Servers. Am I right? If you use Recovery points with VSS it should work or do I miss something?

Is it supported by MS? If not is there any other solution than using AlwaysOn?

Best Regards,
Adrian

Yes, SQL servers are supported in Azure Site Recovery - You can read the details here - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/site-recovery-sql/