You have a standard General Purpose v2 (GPv2) storage account named storagedatagh in the North Europe region. The storage account is currently configured to use Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS).
You need to change the replication strategy of storagedatagh to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS) to protect against both zonal and regional failures. The solution must minimize administrative effort and avoid any data loss or storage downtime.
Which of the following actions should you perform?
- Request a live migration to transition the storage account to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS), and then modify the replication setting to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS).Answer
- BDirectly modify the configuration settings of the storage account to change the replication setting from Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS).
- CChange the replication setting of the storage account from Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) to Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), and then change the replication setting to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS).
- DCreate a new storage account configured with Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS), and then configure a lifecycle management policy to migrate the blobs from the original storage account.
Answer
Request a live migration to transition the storage account to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS), and then modify the replication setting to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS).
To transition a standard GPv2 storage account from Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) to Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS) without downtime or data loss, you must first request a live migration to Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS). After the live migration is complete, you can then perform a self-service upgrade of the replication configuration from ZRS to GZRS.
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Key Concept
Azure Storage replication conversion paths and migration limitations
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