Protecting Virtual Machines From Azure
Virtual Machines created in Azure can be protected to the following platforms:
Protected Site | To Recovery Site | See Procedure... |
Azure | To a vCenter Server site | |
To a Hyper-V site | |
To a vCloud Director (vCD) | |
Within Azure | |
To a Amazon Web Services (AWS) site | |
Requirements for Microsoft Azure Environments
Limitations and Considerations
The following are not supported:
■ Volumes residing in premium storage accounts.
■ Virtual machines with managed disks attached.
■ Retention is not supported in Azure.
■ Resizing of protected disks in Azure is not supported and recovery disks are not auto-resized. If you resize the protected disk from Azure, the VPG will be stuck in a Needs Configuration state until the resized disk, VM, or VPG is removed.
Notes:
■ When Reverse Protection is configured, in the Recovery step of the wizard the VPG and VM default network settings are configured as if a new VPG to Azure was created. The original VM network settings of the on-premise VPG are not reproduced in the VPG network settings in reverse protection configuration.
■ When creating or editing a VPG from Azure to vSphere or Hyper-V, re-IP of the NIC configuration is supported only if VMware Tools (vSphere) or Microsoft Integration Services (Hyper-V) are available for each virtual machine in the VPG, in which case the IP address of the originally protected virtual machine is used.
■ Protection can be set up to enable recovery to a point in time, up to 30 days prior to a disaster.
■ Azure local SSD disks, which are created with the virtual machine but not provisioned to the virtual machine, are not protected.
■ Boot order configuration for virtual machines recovered from Azure to on-premise sites is supported.
■ When a VM is recovered to Azure, a temporary drive is automatically created in the drive letter following the OS drive. Due to this temp drive, the non-OS drives you had set up in your production site may be shifted when recovered to Azure.
■ Every block blob, page blob and Managed disks that are created by Zerto, are Encrypted at Rest on the Microsoft Azure platform, using the Microsoft-managed default key.
■ Both the protected and recovery sites must be running Zerto <LatestVersion>.