You are designing a backup strategy for 50 Azure Virtual Machines. The business requires that backups are stored in a different Azure region than the VMs to protect against a regional outage. You also need the ability to restore a VM to the secondary region if the primary region goes down. What should you configure?

Answer options:

A.

A Recovery Services vault with Locally Redundant Storage (LRS).

B.

A Recovery Services vault with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) and Cross Region Restore (CRR) enabled.

C.

Azure Site Recovery.

D.

A Backup vault with Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS).

How to approach this question

Identify the backup vault configuration that enables cross-region replication and restoration.

Full Answer

B.A Recovery Services vault with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) and Cross Region Restore (CRR) enabled.✓ Correct

To protect against regional outages, the Recovery Services vault must use Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS). To actively restore VMs in that secondary region, Cross Region Restore (CRR) must be enabled.

Common mistakes

Confusing Azure Backup (CRR) with Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

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