You are designing a backup and recovery solution for an Azure virtual machine that runs a critical middleware application. The virtual machine uses Premium SSD managed disks.
Your solution must satisfy the following technical requirements:
- Resilience: Backups must be recoverable even in the event of a complete disaster in the primary Azure region.
- Operational RTO: Any recovery of files or full virtual machines from backups created within the last 10 days must take less than 15 minutes.
- Retention: Backups must be kept for a total of 180 days to meet compliance regulations.
- Cost: Minimize overall storage and management costs.
Which backup vault type, storage redundancy, and policy configuration should you select to meet these requirements?
- AA Recovery Services Vault configured with Locally Redundant Storage (LRS), using an Enhanced backup policy with the instant restore retention set to 10 days and the vault retention set to 180 days.
- BA Recovery Services Vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), using a Standard backup policy with the instant restore retention set to 10 days and the vault retention set to 180 days.
- A Recovery Services Vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), using an Enhanced backup policy with the instant restore retention set to 10 days and the vault retention set to 180 days.Cevap
- DA Backup Vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), using an Enhanced backup policy with the instant restore retention set to 10 days and the vault retention set to 180 days.
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A Recovery Services Vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS), using an Enhanced backup policy with the instant restore retention set to 10 days and the vault retention set to 180 days.
The correct solution uses a Recovery Services Vault to back up the Azure Virtual Machine. The vault is configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) to satisfy the disaster recovery resilience requirement. Because the operational RTO requires recovering from local snapshots (instant restore) for up to 10 days, an Enhanced backup policy must be used since Standard backup policies limit instant restore retention to a maximum of 5 days. The remainder of the 180-day compliance retention is safely stored in the standard vault storage tier.
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Designing Azure Virtual Machine backups using Recovery Services Vaults and selecting Standard versus Enhanced backup policies to support snapshot-level retention requirements.