WN section ASR

Author: Ankita Dutta

articles/site-recovery/feature-updates-whats-new.md

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-# Site Recovery updates
+# Site Recovery feature updates
+
+## Updates (May 2024)
+
+### Use Azure Monitor for Azure Site Recovery
+
+Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now surfaces default alerts via Azure Monitor for critical events such as replication health turning unhealthy, failover failures, agent expiry, and so on. You can monitor these alerts via the Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Monitor dashboard, or your Recovery Services vault and route these alerts to various notification channels of choice (Email, ITSM, Webhook, SMS). [Learn more](site-recovery-monitor-and-troubleshoot.md)
+
+We recommend using built-in Azure Monitor alerts over classic alerts to leverage the following benefits of Azure Monitor: 
+- Ability to configure notifications to a wide range of notification channels supported by Azure Monitor 
+- Ability to select which scenarios to get notified for 
+- Ability to have a consistent alerts management experience for multiple Azure services including backup, with at-scale management capabilities 
+
+### Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Windows OS) (preview)
+
+Azure Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational compute security to Azure Generation 2 VMs by enabling Secure Boot and vTPM capabilities. This public preview is for Windows OS only. [Learn more](concepts-trusted-vm.md). 
+
+
+## Updates (February 2024)
+
+### Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks
+
+Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery. Support is available for VMware VMs protected using the modernized architecture. [Learn more](vmware-azure-enable-replication-added-disk.md). 
+
+
+## Updates (January 2024)
+
+### Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Site Recovery (private preview)
+
+Enabling disaster recovery on Premium SSD v2 is currently available in select regions and we plan to keep adding support in more regions over the coming weeks. If you are interested in participating in the preview, you can [request access](https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbRxOsc7Qc-ylHvn9ZP9cSTHFUNlRUT0FSUkFHWTdFRDYzWEo4T05XWERKMC4u) to get started. 
+
 
 ## Updates (November 2023)
 
 ### Use Azure Business Continuity center (preview)
 
-You can now also manage Azure Site Recovery protections using Azure Business Continuity (ABC) center. ABC enables you to manage your protection estate across solutions and environments. It provides a unified experience with consistent views, seamless navigation, and supporting information to provide a holistic view of your business continuity estate for better discoverability with the ability to do core activities. [Lear more about the supported scenarios](../business-continuity-center/business-continuity-center-support-matrix.md).
+You can now also manage Azure Site Recovery protections using Azure Business Continuity (ABC) center. ABC enables you to manage your protection estate across solutions and environments. It provides a unified experience with consistent views, seamless navigation, and supporting information to provide a holistic view of your business continuity estate for better discoverability with the ability to do core activities. [Learn more about the supported scenarios](../business-continuity-center/business-continuity-center-support-matrix.md).
+
+## Updates (August 2023)
+
+### Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support
+
+Azure Site Recovery has increased its data churn limit by approximately 2.5x to 50 MB/s per disk. With this, you can configure disaster recovery (DR) for Azure VMs having data churn up to 100 MB/s. This helps you to enable DR for more IO intensive workloads. 
+
+This is an opt-in support. To opt for the higher churn limit is very easy – you need to select the option High Churn when enabling the replication. By default, Normal Churn option is selected. If you want to use the higher churn limit for Azure VMs already protected using ASR, you need to disable replication and re-enable replication with the High Churn option selected. Please note that this feature is only available for Azure-to-Azure scenarios. [Learn more](concepts-azure-to-azure-high-churn-support.md).  
+
+## Updates (April 2023)
+
+### Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery
+
+You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size. This applies to Hyper-V VMs that replicate to a managed disks in any Azure region using Site Recovery. The feature is deployed in all Azure public and government clouds. With this improvement, customers can protect:
+
+- Their machines to managed disks and failback from managed disks. Previously, only failover to managed disk was supported, whereas replication would happen to unmanaged disks only.
+- Large OS disks (up to 4 TB in size, whereas only 2 TB sized OS disks for Generation 1 VMs and 300 GB sized OS disks for Generation 2 VMs were supported).
+
+[Learn more](hyper-v-azure-tutorial.md) 
+
+## Updates (March 2023)
+
+### Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026
+
+In October 2022, we launched modernized experience to protect VMware VMs and physical servers. Since then, we've been enhancing our capabilities. We will begin deprecating Azure Site Recovery's classic experience to protect VMware VMs and physical servers on 15th March 2023 because modernized experience now has full capabilities of classic experience and other advancements. This functionality will be completely retired on March 30, 2026.
+
+To avoid service interruption and minimize your security risk, transition to the modernized experience before 30 March 2026.
+
+## Updates (January 2023)
+
+### At-scale monitoring for Azure Site Recovery with Backup center
+
+With this update, you can get at scale monitoring for your replicated items, jobs and manage them across subscriptions, resource groups and locations from a single view in Backup center. This will be a powerful tool for all customers to easily monitor Site Recovery at scale. 
+
+Azure Site Recovery users can now use Azure Backup center for at-scale monitoring and management capabilities across subscriptions, resource groups, and regions like:
+- View entire replicated items inventory on a day-to-day basis from a single view across the vaults,
+- Single pane of glass to monitor all your replication jobs.
+
+Backup centre supports Azure VM, VMware and Physical machine scenarios for Azure Site Recovery. [Learn more](../backup/backup-center-overview.md) 
+
 
 ## Next steps
 
-- Learn more about [Azure Site Recovery](site-recovery-overview.md).
-- Learn more about [Azure Business Continuity center](../business-continuity-center/business-continuity-center-overview.md).
+Keep up-to-date with our updates on the [Azure Updates](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/?product=site-recovery) page.

articles/site-recovery/site-recovery-whats-new.md

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 **Providers and agents** | Updates to Site Recovery agents and providers as detailed in the rollup KB article.
 **Issue fixes/improvements** | Many fixes and improvement as detailed in the rollup KB article.
 **Azure VM disaster recovery** | Added support for Oracle Linux 9.2, Oracle Linux 9.3, RHEL 9.2, Rocky Linux 9.0 and Rocky Linux 9.1 Linux distros.
-**VMware VM/physical disaster recovery to Azure** |   Added support for Oracle Linux 9.2, Oracle Linux 9.3, RHEL 9.2, Rocky Linux 9.0 and Rocky Linux 9.1 Linux distros. <br><br/> Added support for Windows 11 server. <br><br/> Enabled the proxy bypass capability in the ASR replication appliance. With this, customers can now bypass proxy settings from the Appliance configuration manager. 
+**VMware VM/physical disaster recovery to Azure** |   Added support for Oracle Linux 9.2, Oracle Linux 9.3, RHEL 9.2, Rocky Linux 9.0 and Rocky Linux 9.1 Linux distros. <br><br/> Added support for Windows 11 server. <br><br/> Enabled the proxy bypass capability in the Azure Site Recovery replication appliance. With this, customers can now bypass proxy settings from the Appliance configuration manager. 
 
 ### Update Rollup 71