Question

Your company backs up several production Azure VMs to a Recovery Services vault in the East US region. During a regional outage in East US, you need to restore a protected VM from its backup data into the West US region. When you attempt this, the West US region is not available as a restore target. What must you verify or configure to enable restoring the VM's backup data to a secondary region?

Accepted Answer

Ensure the vault uses Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) replication and that Cross Region Restore is enabled on the vault.

Answer

Change the vault's replication to Locally-Redundant Storage (LRS) and re-run the backup job.

Answer

Configure Azure Site Recovery replication for the VM and initiate a failover to West US.

Answer

Create a new Recovery Services vault in West US and copy the recovery points manually using AzCopy.