Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure
With Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure, you can immediately recover different workloads (VMs, EC2 instances, physical servers and so on) as Microsoft Azure VMs. Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure can be helpful, for example, if you want to recover your infrastructure in a matter of minutes but with limited performance. For migrating your infrastructure, Restore to Microsoft Azure.
During recovery, Veeam Backup & Replication runs workloads from compressed and deduplicated backup files. This helps improve recovery time objectives (RTO), minimize disruption and downtime of production workloads. The workloads are recovered in a matter of minutes.
When you perform Instant Recovery, Veeam Backup & Replication creates dummy VMs and mounts to VMs workload disks from backups stored on backup repositories. These dummy VMs have limited I/O performance. To provide full I/O performance, you must migrate the VMs to the production site.
Besides disaster recovery matters, Instant Recovery can also be used for testing purposes. Instead of extracting workloads to production storage to perform regular disaster recovery (DR) testing, you can run a workload directly from a backup file, boot it and make sure the guest OS and applications are functioning properly. For more information, see Finalizing Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure.
Instant Recovery supports bulk processing so you can immediately recover multiple workloads at once. If you perform Instant Recovery for several workloads, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the resource scheduling mechanism to allocate and use optimal resources required for Instant Recovery. For details, see Resource Scheduling.
You can recover workloads from the following types of backups:
- Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication
- Backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication
- Backups of virtual and physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux
- Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
- Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created by Veeam Backup for AWS
- Backups of Microsoft Azure virtual machines created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure
- Backups of Proxmox VE VMs created by Veeam Plug-in for Proxmox VE