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Azure Storage Account:- Manual Failover

18th March 20198th February 2019 by Thomas Thornton

Rather happy with this preview feature announcement – currently in preview Geo-redundant storage (GRS) or Read Access-GRS accounts now have the option to manually fail over rather than wait on Azure to initiate the fail-over into the secondary region. This is great news, not all “Disaster Recovery” scenarios now require Azure to initiate the fail-over, … Read more

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Categories Azure, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, tips, troubleshooting Tags Azure CLI, failover, manual, Microsoft, storage account Leave a comment

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