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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:
- Launch the Restore to Azure wizard.
- Select Azure VMs and restore points.
- Specify a restore mode.
- Specify an Azure subscription and region.
- Specify VM names and resource groups.
- Configure VM availability options.
- Specify VM sizes.
- Specify network and secure group settings.
- Specify a restore reason.
- Finish working with the wizard.