Azure 10 // Backup, Archive & Disaster Recovery

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Backup, Archive & Disaster Recovery

Protect your data and applications no matter where they reside to avoid costly business interruptions.

Sales & Presales:
Questions to Ask Your Customer

• Are your existing backup and disaster recovery solutions optimized for scale, automation, cost, and reliability?
• Do you have a DR plan for all applications, or just a few?
• Are you able to test those plans without impacting users?
• How much do you spend on storage/SAN for backup and recovery?

Sales & Presales: Case Studies

• Using cloud technologies to improve disaster recovery
• Protecting Azure resources with Recovery Services vault

Backup

Azure Backup allows you to back up the data for on-premises servers, virtual machines, virtualized workloads, SQL server, SharePoint server, and more.

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Technical Content: Learn to back up and recover virtual machines within Azure or from Windows Server.

1. Backup multiple Azure VMs
2. Restore a disk and create a recovered VM
3. Restore files to a Virtual Machine in Azure
4. Back up a Windows Server to Azure
5. Recover files from Azure to a Windows Server

Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery orchestrates and manages disaster recovery for Azure VMs, and on-premises VMs and physical servers.

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Technical Content:
Step-by-StepTutorials

Azure to Azure

1. Set up disaster recovery
2. Run a disaster recovery drill
3. Run failover and failback

VMware

1. Prepare Azure
2. Prepare on-premises VMware
3. Set-up disaster recovery
4. Run a disaster recovery drill
5. Run a failover and failback

Hyper-V

1. Prepare Azure
2. Prepare on-premises Hyper-V
3. Set-up disaster recovery for Hyper-V VMs
4. Set-up disaster recovery for Hyper-V VMs managed by System Center VMM
5. Run a disaster recovery drill
6. Run a failover and failback

Migrate to Azure

1. Prepare Azure
2. Migrate on-premises machines or AWS Instances to Azure

Azure Storage

Microsoft Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed cloud service that provides storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. Azure Storage consists of Blob storage, File Storage, and Queue storage.

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Learn how to upload and process image data in the cloud.

• Upload and retrieve image data in the cloud

• Trigger Azure Functions to process blobs

• Secure application data

• Monitor and troubleshoot storage

   

Learn how to design your application for high availability in Azure Storage.

• Make your application data highly available

• Simulate a failure in accessing read-access redundant storage

   

Learn how to search unstructured data in Azure Storage.

• Search unstructured data in cloud storage

StorSimple

Learn how to use Azure StorSimple, an integrated storage solution that manages storage tasks between on-premises devices and Azure cloud storage. Tutorials and other documentation show you how set up storage management, location-independent backup, and disaster recovery.

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Sample Solution architecture 1: Back up on-premises applications and data to cloud

Back up data and applications from an on-premises system to Azure using Azure Backup or a partner solution. An Internet connection to Azure is used to connect to Azure Backup or Azure Blob storage. Azure Backup Server can write backups directly to Azure Backup. Alternatively, a partner solution such as Commvault Simpana or Veeam Availability Suite, hosted on-premises, can write backups to Blob storage directly or via a cloud endpoint such as Veeam Cloud Connect.

This solution is built on the Azure managed services: Backup Server, Backup and Blob Storage. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.

Implementation guidance

Sample Solution architecture 2: Back up cloud applications and data to cloud

Back up data and applications running in Azure to another Azure location by using Azure Backup or a partner solution.

This solution is built on the Azure managed services: Backup and Blob Storage. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.

Implementation guidance

Sample Solution architecture 3: Archive on-premises data to cloud

Archive your on-premises data to Azure Blob storage.

This solution is built on the Azure managed services: StorSimple and Blob Storage. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.

Implementation guidance