Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure is a free solution that provides an easy and efficient way to restore machines to Microsoft Azure from Veeam backups. Microsoft Azure Marketplace customers can instantly provision the Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure appliance, move backup archives to it and start restoring machines to Microsoft Azure.
You can use Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure to complete the following tasks:
- Restore machines from backups to Microsoft Azure.
- Migrate machines to Microsoft Azure.
- Create a test environment in Microsoft Azure for troubleshooting, testing patches and updates and so on.
For restore to Microsoft Azure, you can use backups of physical machines created with Veeam Endpoint Backup and backups of VMs created with Veeam Backup & Replication. You can restore machines from backups of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere VMs, as well as VMware vCloud Director VMs.
Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure is delivered as a pre-configured Microsoft Azure appliance. The appliance runs Veeam Backup & Replication in the free operation mode and the Veeam Azure Recovery utility that lets you restore machines from backups to the cloud. Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure is started immediately and is ready for use when you start the appliance in Microsoft Azure.
Limitations for Restore to Microsoft Azure
- The BETA version of Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure uses the classic deployment model to restore machines. Restored VMs will be available under the Virtual machines (classic) view in the Microsoft Azure portal.
- The BETA version of Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure lets you restore only Microsoft Windows machines. Restore of Linux machines is not supported.
- The maximum size of one disk for a VM in Microsoft Azure is 1023 GB. You cannot restore a machine that has disks of a greater size. For more information, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-subscription-service-limits/.
- If the system disk of the initial machine uses the GPT partitioning scheme, the number of partitions on the disk cannot exceed 4. During restore such disk will be converted to a disk using the MBR partitioning scheme.
- [For VM backups] Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure supports batch restore. To restore several VMs, you should pass through the Restore to Azure wizard several times.
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