Restoring to Microsoft Azure

In case a disaster strikes, you can restore entire Azure VMs from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups.

To restore VMs from cloud-native snapshots, Veeam Backup & Replication invokes native Azure capabilities. To restore VMs from image-level backups, Veeam Backup & Replication uses different algorithms depending on whether a Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure appliance is present in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure:

• If a Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure appliance and Azure Blob storage connected to it are present in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the restore algorithm described in the How VM Restore Works section in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide.
• If a Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure appliance is not present in the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure and only Azure Blob storage connected to this appliance is present there, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the restore algorithm described in the How Restore to Microsoft Azure Works section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

To restore VMs, do the following:

1. Check prerequisites
2. Launch the Restore to Azure wizard
3. Select Azure VMs and restore points
4. Specify a restore mode
5. Specify an Azure subscription and region
6. Specify VM names and resource groups
7. Configure VM availability options
8. Specify VM sizes
9. Specify network and secure group settings
10. Specify a restore reason
11. Finish working with the wizard