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Difficulty: MediumCreate and Configure Virtual Machines

You plan to deploy a new Azure virtual machine named VM1 in the East US region.

You need to configure the deployment to satisfy the following requirements:
- Protect the virtual machine against datacenter-wide failures within the East US region.
- Back up VM1 by using an existing Recovery Services Vault.

Which configuration should you use?

  1. A
    Deploy VM1 in an Availability Set and associate it with a Recovery Services Vault in the East US region.
  2. Deploy VM1 in an Availability Zone and associate it with a Recovery Services Vault in the East US region.Answer
  3. C
    Deploy VM1 in an Availability Zone and associate it with a Recovery Services Vault in the West US region.
  4. D
    Deploy VM1 in an Availability Set and associate it with a Recovery Services Vault in the West US region.

Answer

Deploy VM1 in an Availability Zone and associate it with a Recovery Services Vault in the East US region.
Deploying the virtual machine in an Availability Zone protects against datacenter-wide failures because zones are physically separate datacenters within a region. The Recovery Services Vault must reside in the same region (East US) as the virtual machine it backs up.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the high availability requirement.
To protect against datacenter-wide failures, VM1 must be deployed across Availability Zones rather than Availability Sets.
Availability Zones represent physically separate datacenters with independent power, cooling, and networking within an Azure region, whereas Availability Sets only protect against localized hardware failures within a single datacenter.
2
Determine the backup vault regional compatibility requirement.
The Recovery Services Vault must be located in the same region as the virtual machine (East US).
Azure Backup requires the source resource and the Recovery Services Vault to reside in the same geographical region for backup operations to be supported.

Key Concept

Azure Virtual Machine high availability options and Recovery Services Vault regional requirements
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