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Difficulty: MediumAzure Virtual Machine Recovery and Restore

A company runs a production server named `vm-prod-east` in the East US region. The server is backed up to a Recovery Services vault that has geo-redundant storage (GRS) and Cross-Region Restore (CRR) enabled. Following a disaster in the primary region, the operations team needs to restore the virtual machine to the paired secondary region (West US).

Which sequence of actions should the operations team perform to complete this restore?

  1. 1Open the Backup center in the Azure portal and select the restore option for Azure Virtual Machines.
  2. 2Select the backup instance for vm-prod-east and change the recovery region to the secondary region.
  3. 3Choose an available recovery point from the secondary region backup data.
  4. 4Specify the destination resource group, virtual network, subnet, and staging storage account in the secondary region.
  5. 5Review the configuration details and trigger the restore job.

Answer

To perform a Cross-Region Restore (CRR) of an Azure Virtual Machine, the administrator must first open the Backup center and choose to restore a virtual machine. Next, select the backup instance and set the recovery region to the secondary region. Then, choose a recovery point, configure the target resource group, virtual network, subnet, and staging storage account in the secondary region, and finally trigger the restore job.
The correct sequence begins by accessing the Backup center and selecting the restore option for Azure Virtual Machines. The administrator then selects the specific backup instance and switches the recovery region to the secondary region. Next, a valid recovery point from the secondary region is chosen. Once the point is selected, the target resources (Resource Group, VNet, subnet, and staging storage account) within the secondary region must be specified. Finally, the restore job is triggered to deploy the VM.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Locate and initiate restore in Backup center
The restore wizard starts, targeting Azure Virtual Machines.
Accessing the restore wizard is the entry point for recovery tasks.
2
Select the target backup instance and switch to the secondary region
The wizard switches focus to the geo-replicated backup data in the secondary region.
Cross-Region Restore retrieves data replicated to the paired region.
3
Choose a valid recovery point
The specific backup state to restore is selected.
A restore point must be selected before configuring destination resources, as settings depend on the disk configurations of that point.
4
Define target configuration settings in the secondary region
Resource group, virtual network, subnet, and staging storage account are specified.
The restored VM requires a hosting environment in the secondary region, and a staging account is required to copy the disks.
5
Validate settings and trigger the restore job
The backup service begins restoring the VM to the secondary region.
Finalizing the inputs initiates the automated deployment job.

Key Concept

Cross-Region Restore (CRR) for Azure Virtual Machines
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