You are designing a backup solution for a production SAP HANA database running on Azure Virtual Machines. You also need to back up the underlying Virtual Machines to allow rapid recovery of the OS and application configuration. The solution must satisfy the following requirements:
- Database transaction log backups must run every minutes to meet the database Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
- VM-level recovery points must support instant restore capabilities for up to days.
- All backup data must remain available even in the event of a primary Azure region failure.
- Storage costs for long-term backups must be minimized by archiving weekly full backups older than days to the Vault-archive tier.
Which configuration should you recommend?
- ACreate a Recovery Services vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS). Associate the database with a SAP HANA backup policy that runs log backups every minutes and tiers weekly full backups to the Vault-archive tier after days. Associate the Virtual Machines with a Standard VM backup policy that has instant restore retention set to days.
- BCreate a Recovery Services vault configured with Locally Redundant Storage (LRS). Associate the database with a SAP HANA backup policy that runs log backups every minutes and tiers weekly full backups to the Vault-archive tier after days. Associate the Virtual Machines with an Enhanced VM backup policy that has instant restore retention set to days.
- Create a Recovery Services vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS). Associate the database with a SAP HANA backup policy that runs log backups every minutes and tiers weekly full backups to the Vault-archive tier after days. Associate the Virtual Machines with an Enhanced VM backup policy that has instant restore retention set to days.Cevap
- DCreate a Recovery Services vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS). Associate the database with a SAP HANA backup policy that runs log backups every minutes and tiers both log backups and weekly full backups to the Vault-archive tier after days. Associate the Virtual Machines with an Enhanced VM backup policy that has instant restore retention set to days.
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Create a Recovery Services vault configured with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS). Associate the database with a SAP HANA backup policy that runs log backups every minutes and tiers weekly full backups to the Vault-archive tier after days. Associate the Virtual Machines with an Enhanced VM backup policy that has instant restore retention set to days.
The correct configuration uses a Recovery Services vault with GRS to ensure backup availability across regions. To meet the -day instant restore requirement for VMs, an Enhanced VM backup policy is required because standard policies only support up to days of instant restore snapshot retention. Additionally, only full database backups can be tiered to the Vault-archive tier after days, while log backups remain in the standard vault tier to support database recovery operations.
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