Question

A financial services company runs production VMs in the Azure East US region and protects them with Azure Backup using a Recovery Services vault. Compliance requires that if the entire East US region becomes unavailable, backup administrators must be able to restore the VMs into a paired region without waiting for Microsoft to declare a failover. The solution must minimize additional cost while meeting this requirement. What should the architect configure on the Recovery Services vault?

Accepted Answer

Set the vault storage replication type to Geo-redundant (GRS) and enable the Cross Region Restore setting.

Answer

Set the vault storage replication type to Locally-redundant (LRS) and rely on Azure Site Recovery for regional failover.

Answer

Set the vault storage replication type to Zone-redundant (ZRS) and enable Cross Region Restore.

Answer

Keep Geo-redundant (GRS) storage and open a support request to have Microsoft initiate a customer-managed failover when needed.