An organization has an Azure virtual machine named VM-Sales-01 located in the East US region. The virtual machine is backed up to a Recovery Services vault named Vault-Sales with Cross-Region Restore (CRR) enabled. The secondary region is West US. Due to an outage in the East US region, you must recover the workload in the West US region using Azure Backup. Which restore options are available in the secondary region when configuring the restore in the Azure portal? (Select two.)
- Create a new virtual machine in the secondary regionAnswer
- Restore the virtual machine's disks to a storage account in the secondary regionAnswer
- CReplace the existing virtual machine in the secondary region
- DReplace the existing virtual machine in the primary region using Cross-Region Restore
Answer
The correct options are creating a new virtual machine in the secondary region and restoring the virtual machine's disks to a storage account in the secondary region.
When performing a Cross-Region Restore (CRR) for an Azure virtual machine, Azure Backup allows you to either create a new virtual machine in the secondary region or restore the disks to a storage account in the secondary region. The replace option is unavailable because the target virtual machine is in the primary region and does not exist in the secondary region.
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Cross-Region Restore (CRR) capabilities and limitations for Azure Virtual Machines