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Difficulty: MediumCreate and Configure Virtual Machines

A team needs to provision a virtual machine named SalesVM in the North Europe region. The virtual machine must remain accessible even if a power outage or natural disaster affects an entire datacenter facility in that region. Furthermore, the virtual machine requires daily automated backups. Which configuration options should be selected to meet these requirements?

  1. A
    Deploy SalesVM to an Availability Set, and configure backup to a Recovery Services vault located in North Europe.
  2. B
    Deploy SalesVM to an Availability Zone, and configure backup to a Recovery Services vault located in West Europe.
  3. Deploy SalesVM to an Availability Zone, and configure backup to a Recovery Services vault located in North Europe.Answer
  4. D
    Deploy SalesVM using a Basic App Service Plan, and configure backup to a Recovery Services vault located in North Europe.

Answer

Deploy SalesVM to an Availability Zone, and configure backup to a Recovery Services vault located in North Europe.
Deploying the virtual machine to an Availability Zone provides redundancy against a complete datacenter outage by placing the resource in a physically separate zone within the region. The Recovery Services vault must be deployed in the same region (North Europe) as the virtual machine to support Azure Backup.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Determine the high availability option required to protect against an entire datacenter outage.
Availability Zones must be selected because they place virtual machines in physically separate datacenters within a region.
Availability Sets only protect against rack or power failures within a single datacenter, whereas Availability Zones protect against datacenter-wide failures.
2
Determine the region requirements for configuring Azure virtual machine backup.
The Recovery Services vault must be created in the same region as the virtual machine (North Europe).
Cross-region backups of virtual machines to a different vault region are not supported during standard configuration.
3
Verify that the compute resource type matches the virtual machine requirement.
A standard Virtual Machine deployment must be used rather than an App Service Plan.
App Service Plans do not support standard virtual machine workloads.

Key Concept

Selecting appropriate availability options and matching backup vault regions during virtual machine deployment.
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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Create and Configure Virtual Machines

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