Question

Difficulty: MediumCreate and Configure Virtual Machines

An administrator is planning the deployment of a new Azure virtual machine named VM-Prod1 in the West US 3 region. The deployment must meet the following requirements:
- Ensure the virtual machine is protected against datacenter-wide outages within the region.
- Back up VM-Prod1 to an existing Recovery Services vault named Vault1, which is located in the West US 3 region.

Which of the following actions should you perform? Select two.

  1. Deploy VM-Prod1 to a specific Availability Zone in the West US 3 region.Answer
  2. Associate VM-Prod1 with Vault1 to configure the backup.Answer
  3. C
    Deploy VM-Prod1 to a new Availability Set.
  4. D
    Create a new Recovery Services vault in the East US region and associate it with VM-Prod1.

Answer

Deploy the virtual machine in an Availability Zone and associate it with the existing Recovery Services vault in the same region.
To protect against datacenter-wide outages, virtual machines must be deployed across Availability Zones. Additionally, because the existing Recovery Services vault is in the same region as the virtual machine (West US 3), the virtual machine can be backed up directly using this vault.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Evaluate the resiliency requirement to determine the appropriate availability option.
Availability Zones provide protection against datacenter-wide outages by utilizing physically separate datacenters, whereas Availability Sets only protect against localized hardware failures within a single datacenter.
To satisfy the requirement of protecting the virtual machine from datacenter-wide outages.
2
Evaluate the backup requirement and identify region constraints.
The existing vault is in West US 3, which matches the virtual machine's region. Azure Backup requires the vault and the virtual machine to be in the same region.
To satisfy the backup requirement without creating unnecessary resources or violating region restrictions.

Key Concept

Virtual machine availability options and region constraints for Recovery Services vault backups
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