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Difficulty: HardDesign Azure Backup Solutions

An organization is designing a backup solution for business-critical Azure Virtual Machines hosting an enterprise database. The solution must meet the following requirements:

* Daily backups must be retained for a minimum of 3030 days.
* Restore operations for any backup up to 1414 days old must be performed as an 'Instant Restore' to meet strict Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets.
* Backups must remain available even in the event of a regional datacenter disaster.

Which two configurations should you include in the backup design to meet the requirements?

  1. Configure an Enhanced backup policy and set the snapshot retention for instant restore to 1414 days.Answer
  2. Create a Recovery Services vault and configure its storage replication to Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS).Answer
  3. C
    Configure a Standard backup policy and set the snapshot retention for instant restore to 1414 days.
  4. D
    Create a Backup vault and configure its storage replication to Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS).

Answer

Configure an Enhanced backup policy with 1414 days of snapshot retention for instant restore, and create a Recovery Services vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS).
The correct design requires a Recovery Services vault configured with GRS to ensure regional resilience, and an Enhanced backup policy configured with 1414 days of snapshot retention to support instant restore for that duration, as Standard policies only support up to 55 days.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the vault type required for Azure Virtual Machine backups.
Azure VMs must be backed up to a Recovery Services vault, not a Backup vault.
Azure Backup uses Recovery Services vaults for VM backups, whereas Backup vaults are used for operational backups of other resource types.
2
Determine the storage redundancy type needed to protect against regional disasters.
Configure the vault with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS).
GRS replicates backup data to a secondary paired region, ensuring availability during a regional disaster.
3
Analyze the policy type needed to support a 1414-day instant restore requirement.
Select an Enhanced backup policy and set instant restore retention to 1414 days.
Standard backup policies only support a maximum of 55 days for instant restore snapshot retention, while Enhanced backup policies support up to 3030 days.

Key Concept

Azure VM backup policy configuration, vault selection, and storage redundancy options.
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