Azure 10 // Backup, Archive & Disaster Recovery

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Compiled by Anshuman Mansingh > https://in.linkedin.com/in/anshumanmansingh

 

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.

 

Azure Backup eBook:
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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.

 

Site Recovery eBook:
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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.

 

Azure Storage eBook:
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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.

 

StorSimple eBook:
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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

	Products/Description	Documentation
Backup Server	Azure Backup Server orchestrates the backup of machines and manages the configuration of the restore procedures. It also has two days of backup data for operational recovery.	Back up workloads using Azure Backup Server
Backup	Azure Backup service runs on the cloud and holds the recovery points, enforces policies, and enables you to manage data and application protection. You don't need to create or manage an Azure Blob storage account when using Azure Backup.	Back up files and folders using Azure Backup
Blob Storage	Blob storage that partner solutions such as Commvault connect to for backing up data and applications. You need to create and manage Azure Blob storage when using partner solutions.	Store backed up files in Blob storage
Commvault	Commvault Simpana is an example of a partner solution to back up or archive your data and applications to Azure. This runs on a virtual machine on-premises.	Commvault Simpana Software Capabilities

 

 

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

	Products/Description	Documentation
Backup	Azure Backup service runs on the cloud and holds the recovery points, enforces policies, and enables you to manage data and application protection. You don't need to create or manage an Azure Blob storage account when using Azure Backup.	Back up files and folders using Azure Backup
Blob Storage	Blob storage that partner solutions such as Commvault connect to for backing up data and applications. You need to create and manage Azure Blob storage when using partner solutions.	Store backed up files in Blob storage
Commvault	Commvault Simpana is an example of a partner solution to back up or archive your data and applications to Azure. This runs on a virtual machine on Azure.	Commvault Simpana Software Capabilities
Agent	An agent provided by the partner backup provider is installed on each virtual machine that needs to be backed up. It has access to data and applications running on the virtual machine and interacts with a virtual appliance such as Commvault Simpana hosted on Azure.	Commvault Simpana Backup Agents

 

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

	Products/Description	Documentation
Veeam	Veeam availability suite hosted on-premises running on a virtual machine or physical machine.	Veeam Availability Suite
StorSimple	Azure StorSimple appliance running on-premises that can tier data to Azure Blob storage (both hot and cool tier). StorSimple can be used to archive data from on-premises to Azure.	Learning path for StorSimple
Veeam	Veeam Cloud Connect hosted on Azure and running on a virtual machine.	Veeam Cloud Connect v9: A Reference Architecture
Blob Storage	A cool tier on Azure Blob storage is used to back up data that's less frequently accessed, while a hot tier on Azure Blob storage is used to store data that's frequently accessed.	Azure Blob Storage: Hot and cool storage tiers