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# Customer intent: "As a cloud administrator, I want to utilize Azure Resource Manager templates for configuring Azure Site Recovery, so that I can efficiently manage disaster recovery processes for my Azure virtual machines."
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| [Create a Recovery Services vault](./quickstart-create-vault-template.md)| Create a Recovery Services vault. The vault can be used for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery. |
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| [Enable Replication for Azure VMs](https://aka.ms/asr-arm-enable-replication) | Enable replication for Azure VMs using the existing Vault and custom Target Settings.|
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| [Trigger Failover and Reprotect](https://aka.ms/asr-arm-failover-reprotect) | Trigger a Failover and Reprotect operation for a set of Azure VMs. |
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| [Run an End to End DR Flow for Azure VMs](https://aka.ms/asr-arm-e2e-flow) | Start a complete End to End Disaster Recovery Flow (Enable Replication + Failover and Reprotect + Failback and Reprotect) for Azure VMs, also called as 540° flow.|
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| [Create a Recovery Services vault](./quickstart-create-vault-template.md)| Create a Recovery Services vault. Use the vault for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery. |
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| [Enable Replication for Azure VMs](https://aka.ms/asr-arm-enable-replication) | Enable replication for Azure VMs by using the existing vault and custom target settings.|
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| [Trigger Failover and Reprotect](https://aka.ms/asr-arm-failover-reprotect) | Trigger a failover and reprotect operation for a set of Azure VMs. |
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| [Run an End to End DR Flow for Azure VMs](https://aka.ms/asr-arm-e2e-flow) | Start a complete end-to-end disaster recovery flow (Enable Replication + Failover and Reprotect + Failback and Reprotect) for Azure VMs, also called as 540° flow.|
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This tutorial describes how to run a disaster recovery drill for an Azure VMware Solution virtual machine (VM) to Azure by using the [Azure Site Recovery](site-recovery-overview.md) service. A drill validates your replication strategy without data loss.
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