Disaster Recovery Orchestrator provides protection for the applications that are deployed in the IT setup of small and medium business (SMB) enterprises. The applications that are deployed on the on-premises site can be configured for monitoring and disaster recovery (DR). Such applications are migrated to or recovered at the Microsoft Azure cloud site for which the SMB has a subscription.

A monitoring configuration protects an application against internal faults. If an application stops responding, the monitoring configuration attempts to restart the application and bring it online again. A DR configuration protects an application against site failures. If an application stops responding because the on-premises site becomes unavailable, the DR configuration can be used to recover the application at the cloud site. An application that is configured with Disaster Recovery Orchestrator can also be migrated to the cloud.