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Azure Advisor helps you ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications. You can get high availability recommendations by Advisor from the High Availability tab of the Advisor dashboard.
To provide redundancy to your application, we recommend that you group two or more virtual machines in an availability set. Advisor identifies virtual machines that are not part of an availability set and recommends moving them into an availability set. This configuration ensures that during either a planned or unplanned maintenance event, at least one virtual machine is available and meets the Azure virtual machine SLA. You can choose to create an availability set for the virtual machine or to add the virtual machine to an existing availability set.
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If you choose to create an availability set, you must add at least one more virtual machine into it. We recommend that you group two or more virtual machines in an availability set to ensure that at least one machine is available during an outage.
To provide redundancy to your application, we recommend that you group two or more virtual machines in an availability set. Advisor identifies availability sets that contain a single virtual machine and recommends adding one or more virtual machines to it. This configuration ensures that during either a planned or unplanned maintenance event, at least one virtual machine is available and meets the Azure virtual machine SLA. You can choose to create a virtual machine or to add an existing virtual machine to the availability set.
To ensure the business continuity of mission-critical applications that are powered by application gateways, Advisor identifies application gateway instances that are not configured for fault tolerance, and it suggests remediation actions that you can take. Advisor identifies medium or large single-instance application gateways, and it recommends adding at least one more instance. It also identifies single- or multi-instance small application gateways and recommends migrating to medium or large SKUs. Advisor recommends these actions to ensure that your application gateway instances are configured to satisfy the current SLA requirements for these resources.
Advisor identifies virtual machines with standard disks and recommends upgrading to premium disks.
Azure Premium Storage delivers high-performance, low-latency disk support for virtual machines that run I/O-intensive workloads. Virtual machine disks that use premium storage accounts store data on solid-state drives (SSDs). For the best performance for your application, we recommend that you migrate any virtual machine disks requiring high IOPS to premium storage.
If your disks do not require high IOPS, you can limit costs by maintaining them in standard storage. Standard storage stores virtual machine disk data on hard disk drives (HDDs) instead of SSDs. You can choose to migrate your virtual machine disks to premium disks. Premium disks are supported on most virtual machine SKUs. However, in some cases, if you want to use premium disks, you might need to upgrade your virtual machine SKUs as well.
Setting up virtual machine backup ensures the availability of your business-critical data and offers protection against accidental deletion or corruption. Advisor identifies virtual machines where backup is not enabled, and it recommends enabling backup.
When running a business-critical workload, it's important to have access to technical support when needed. Advisor identifies potential business-critical subscriptions that do not have technical support included in their support plan and recommends upgrading to an option that includes technical support.
We recommend setting up Azure Service Health alerts to be notified when Azure service issues affect you. Azure Service Health is a free service that provides personalized guidance and support when you are impacted by an Azure service issue. Advisor identifies subscriptions that do not have alerts configured and recommends creating one.
Traffic Manager profiles with more than one endpoint experience higher availability if any given endpoint fails. Placing endpoints in different regions further improves service reliability. Advisor identifies Traffic Manger profiles where there is only one endpoint and recommends adding at least one more endpoint in another region.
If all endpoints in a Traffic Manager profile that is configured for proximity routing are in the same region, users from other regions may experience connection delays. Adding or moving an endpoint to another region will improve overall performance and provide better availability if all endpoints in one region fail. Advisor identifies Traffic Manager profiles configured for proximity routing where all the endpoints are in the same region and recommends adding or moving an endpoint to another Azure region.
If a Traffic Manager profile is configured for geographic routing, then traffic is routed to endpoints based on defined regions. If a region fails, there is no pre-defined failover. Having an endpoint where the Regional Grouping is configured to "All (World)" will avoid traffic being dropped and improve service availability. Advisor identifies Traffic Manager profiles configured for geographic routing where there is no endpoint configured to have the Regional Grouping as "All (World)" and recommends making that configuration change.
Use soft delete on your Azure Storage Account to save and recover data in the event of accidental overwrite or deletion
Enable soft delete on your storage account so that deleted blobs transition to a soft deleted state instead of being permanently deleted. When data is overwritten, a soft deleted snapshot is generated to save the state of the overwritten data. This allows you to recover in the event of accidental deletion or overwrites. Advisor identifies Azure Storage Accounts that don't have soft delete enabled and suggests you enable it.
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Sign in to the Azure portal, and then open Advisor.
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On the Advisor dashboard, click the High Availability tab.
For more information about Advisor recommendations, see: