How To Create A Recovery Services Vault In Azure

Follow the below steps to create a Recovery Services vault in the Azure portal.

Step- 1: Log in to https://portal.azure.com/

Step- 2: On the left side menu, click on “All services”.

Step- 3: Now search for “Recovery Services” Now you will see “Recovery Services vaults”. Click on that.

Step- 4: It will show the lists of Recovery Services vaults. Click on Add button.

How to create Recovery services vaults in Azure

Step- 5: On the Create Recovery Services vault window, Select the Subscription, Resource group, Give a Vault name, select a region and then click on the Review + Create button.

How to create Recovery services vaults in Azure for the VM

Step- 6: Now click on the Create button.

Step- 7: Now it will show that the deployment is completed.

Step- 8: Now to confirm if it is successfully created, you can see here

What is the benefit of a Azure sevice vault

You can see above the new Services vaults got created named as “MyNewVault”.

Set storage redundancy for the services vault

You can set the storage replication type between the two

Geo-redundant
Locally-redundant

Default is Geo-redundant. If you want you can change it to Locally-redundant.

You can follow the below steps to do so

Step-1: On the Recovery Services vaults window, click on the new vault you have created. In my case it is MyNewVault.

Step- 2: Click on properties under the Settings section and then click on Update under Backup Configuration.

Set storage redundancy for the services vaults

Step- 3: On the Backup Configuration window, select the Storage replication type as “Locally-redundant” and then click on the Save button.

how to set storage redundancy for the services vaults

Note: It is suggested to use the Geo-redundant(Default) as the Storage replication type.

In this way, you can set the storage redundancy for the services vaults.

How to set cross-region restore for the services vault

Cross-Region Restore (CRR) helps you to restore Azure VMs in a secondary region if there’s a disaster in the primary region.

If you are creating a vault with GRS redundancy include the option to configure the Cross-Region Restore feature and if it is Locally-redundant then you will not get the option for Cross-Region Restore (CRR).

You can follow the below steps to set cross-region to restore for the services vault.

Step-1: On the Recovery Services vaults window, click on the new vault you have created. In my case it is MyNewVault.

How to enable cross-region restore for the services vault

Step- 2: Click on properties under the Settings section and then click on Update under Backup Configuration.

set cross-region restore for the services vault

Step- 3: On the Backup Configuration window, select the Storage replication type as “Geo-redundant” and then only you can see the Cross-Region Restore option. Select the Enable button there.

Finally, Click on the Save button.

How to set cross-region restore for the services vault

This is how you can set cross-region restore for the services vault.

Create a Recovery Services vault using PowerShell

We already discussed how can we create a recovery services vault using the Azure portal. Now let’s discuss how we can create the same using PowerShell.

Step-1:

You need to have a resource group where you can place the Recovery Services vault. If you have already an existing one you can use it. If you do not have any resource group then you can create one by using the below line of code.

New-AzResourceGroup -Name "mynewresgroup123" -Location "West US"

Step- 2:

Use the below line of code to create the Services vault and specify the name for vault, specify the resource group, and specify the location. One important point here to make sure the location for the resource group and location for creating the vault should be the same one.

New-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Name "MyNewVault123" -ResourceGroupName "mynewresgroup123" -Location "West US"

Step- 3:

Use the below line of code to specify the type of storage redundancy to use. Here, in my case I am trying to use the storage type as GeoRedundant.

$myVault = Get-AzRecoveryServicesVault -Name "MyNewVault123"
Set-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProperty  -Vault $myVault -BackupStorageRedundancy GeoRedundant

This is how you can create a Recovery Services vault using PowerShell.

Managing your Recovery Services vaults in the Azure portal

As we have already seen that it is very easy to create the Recovery Services vaults and manage the same in the Azure portal. Just a couple of steps need to be followed to create it.

If you wish to see the recovery points for your virtual machine you just need to select your VM and then select the Backup option from the left side menu.

Step-1: Select your virtual machine and click on the Backup option from the left side menu.

Step- 2: See below you can able to see the Recovery points and all the other details here.

how to create a Recovery Services vaults in Azure

If your virtual machine doesn’t have backup configured, then it will show you to configure backup.

If it is already configured for your virtual machine then it will show the backup details with the status.

Here in my case, vault938 is the Recovery services vault created for my virtual machine(VM).

How to move Recovery Services vault to different resource group

If you wish to move your Recovery services vault to a different resource group, you can do that quickly using the below steps.

How do I change the recovery service vault for Azure?

Log in to the Azure Portal and open the Recovery services vault that you want to move to a different resource group.
On the Overview tab, click on the Essentials option. Click on the Change link next to the Resource group.

Move Recovery Services vault to different resource group using Azure Portal

3. Select the optional related resources and then select another existing Resource group from the dropdown.

How to move Recovery Services vault to different resource group

or, You can click on the Create a new group link to create a new resource group.

How to move Recovery Services vault to different resource group using Azure Portal

4. Select the check box “I understand that tools and scripts associated with moved resources will not work until I update them to use new resource IDs” and finally, click on the Ok button.

How to move Recovery Services vault to a different Subscription

Log in to the Azure Portal and open the Recovery services vault that you want to move to a different Subscription.
On the Overview tab, click on the Essentials option. Click on the Change link next to the Subscription.

3. On the Move Resources window, select another subscription and then click on the Ok button to move the Recovery services vault to another subscription.

Comparison between Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults

There are many differences between Backup vaults and Recovery Services vaults in Azure.

Azure recovery services vault vs backup vault

Backup vaults	Recovery Services vaults
Backup vaults are the older versions.	Recovery Services vaults are the current version.
This is based on the Azure Service Manager model.	This is based on the Azure Resource Manager model of Azure.
These features are not available with Backup vaults.	Recovery Services vaults provide many latest features: 1- Enhanced capabilities to help secure backup data 2- Central monitoring for your hybrid IT environment 3- Instant restore for IaaS VMs

In Azure backup, which type of vault is recommended for better protection?

The answer is “Recovery Services vault”

Azure recovery services vault limits

Let’s discuss here some limitations of the Azure services vault.

What is maximum number of Recovery Services Vault can be created for subscription one region?

You can create 500 Recovery Services vaults for a single subscription.

How many items/datasources can be protected in a vault?

You can able to create up to 2000 items/datasources across all workloads in a vault.

What is the maximum number of machines/servers that can be registered against each vault?

Maximum up to 1000 Azure Virtual machines/vault can be registered, 50 MARS agents/vault can be registered and A maximum of up to 50 MABS servers can be registered / vault.

What is the maximum amount of data that can be backed up using a Recovery Services vault?

There is no limit.

Azure recovery services vault vs storage account

Let’s discuss here, a few key differences between the azure recovery services vault and storage account.

Azure recovery services vault	Storage account
Azure recovery service vault can be used to backup your Virtual machine, the backing of on-premise servers, etc.	A storage account can be used to store all types of data in Azure.
Azure recovery services vault includes recovery points, copies of your backups, etc.	Here, your data can be stored in the form of files, blobs, tables, etc.

Azure recovery services vault pricing

When you are thinking of Azure recovery services vault pricing, you should consider Azure Backup pricing as well as Azure Site Recovery pricing.

Azure Site Recovery pricing

Instances	For the First 31 days	After 31 Days
customer-owned sites from Azure Site Recovery	Free	You need to pay ₹1,152.725/month/instance
Azure from Azure Site Recovery	Free	You need to pay ₹1,801.132/month/instance

Then, You can check out the Pricing for Azure backup.

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Conclusion

In this Azure tutorial, We discussed How to Create a Recovery Services vault in Azure. Along with that, we have also discussed the below topics

How to Create a Recovery Services vault in Azure
What Is Azure Recovery Services Vault
Create a Recovery Services vault
Set storage redundancy for the services vault
How to set cross-region restore for the services vault
Create a Recovery Services vault using PowerShell
How to move Recovery Services vault to different resource group
How do I change the recovery service vault for Azure?
How to move Recovery Services vault to a different Subscription
Comparison between Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults
Azure recovery services vault vs backup vault
In Azure backup, which type of vault is recommended for better protection?
Azure recovery services vault limits
Azure recovery services vault pricing
Azure recovery services vault vs storage account

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