Azure Backup and Site Recovery

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Offline or Online Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) training course.

This course provides a comprehensive guide to designing and implementing robust business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategies using Microsoft Azure.

Students will learn how to implement and manage backup and disaster recovery solutions using Azure services.

Manoj S. Mahajan

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Course Description

Students will start with the fundamentals of BCDR, understanding key metrics like RTO and RPO. The course then dives deep into Azure Backup, covering everything from backing up Azure VMs and on-premises servers to performing various types of restores.

Then in the Azure Site Recovery (ASR), where students will learn to replicate workloads, orchestrate failovers, and ensure application availability during an outage. The course is packed with hands-on labs to ensure practical, real-world skills.

Course Objectives::

Learn how to implement Azure Backup for data protection
Implement backup solutions for on-premises and Azure VMs using Azure Backup.
Configure and manage Azure Site Recovery for disaster recovery.
Implement replication and failover for VMware, Hyper-V VMs and physical servers.
Conduct disaster recovery drills and failover/failback operations.
Monitor and troubleshoot Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery deployments.

Target Audience:

Ideal for professionals such as Azure Administrators, Architects, DevOps Engineers, or anyone working in the Azure ecosystem.
IT Professionals, System Administrators or solution architects with Azure data protection and DR job role.
Professionals preparing for Azure (AZ-104 or AZ-305) certifications BCDR design topics.

Prerequisites:

Minimum 1+ year in Azure administration/architect job role.
Recommended exposure to on-premises Windows Server administration.
Foundational knowledge of on-premises VMware and Hyper-V infrastructure is beneficial.

Syllabus

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What You'll Learn

Azure Fundamentals Refresher (Relevant to Backup/ASR)

Azure global infrastructure and core services overview.
Azure subscription and resource management basics.
Azure Resource Groups, Subscriptions.
Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), Subnets, Network Security Groups (NSGs).
Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Managed Disks.
Azure Storage Accounts (LRS, GRS, RA-GRS, ZRS).
Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) – RBAC roles for backup/DR.

Introduction to Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery

Understanding the "Why": The importance of BCDR.
Understanding Key Metrics/objectives: Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
Core Concepts: Differentiating between Backup, High Availability (HA), and Disaster Recovery (DR).
Overview of Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
Key concepts: backup, restore, disaster recovery, high availability.
Use cases and business value of backup and site recovery in Azure.
Differences between Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.

Understanding Azure Backup

Azure Backup architecture and components (Recovery Services Vault, Recovery Points, Backup Policies).
Understanding Azure Backup components (Recovery Services vault, Backup policies, etc.).
Backup types: file & folder backup, Azure VM backup, application-aware backups.
Backup vault vs. Recovery Services vault differences.
Security and Supported workloads and backup scenarios.
Retention policies and backup schedules.
Monitoring Azure Backup jobs.
Lab: Using Business Continuity Center (ABC) portal.
Lab: Creating your first Recovery Services vault.

Implementing Backup and Restore for Azure VMs

Understanding the VM backup architecture (snapshot, extension, agentless).
Configuring backup for Azure VMs.
Monitoring backup jobs and backup status.
Configuring VM backup policies.
Scheduling considerations and backup frequency.
Incremental backups and consistency options.
Restoring Azure VMs
- Full VM restore (creating a new VM from backup).
- Disk restore and swapping.
- File-level recovery.
Understanding snapshot consistency (Application vs. Crash-consistent).
Monitoring backup jobs, alerts, and reporting.
Restore Operations:
- Full VM Restore (Create new, Replace existing).
- File-Level Restore for granular recovery.
- Cross-Region Restore for regional DR.
Lab: Configuring Azure Backup for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs).
Lab: Restoring a File/Folder or Disk from the VM backup.
Lab: Performing a Full Azure VM Restore.

Azure Files, Blob and SQL Backup

Understanding the integration with Storage Accounts.
Backing Up Azure File Shares.
Configuring backup for Azure File Shares.
Restoring files from Azure File Share backups.
Application-Consistent Backups (Introduction).
SQL Server backup options in Azure.
Long-term retention strategies.
SAP HANA backup on Azure VMs.
Key considerations for application-aware backups.
Lab: Configuring and Restoring Azure File Share Backup.
Lab: Implementing Azure Files backup.
Lab: Configuring SQL backup on Azure VMs.

Backing Up On-Premises and Hybrid Workloads

Backing Up Files and Folders with MARS Agent
Installing and registering the MARS Agent.
Configuring backup jobs for on-premises files and folders.
Performing data recovery.
Lab: Configuring Azure Backup for on-premises data (using Azure Backup agent).
Understanding system state backup.
Restoring system state.
Introduction to Azure Backup Server (MABS) / System Center DPM.
When to use MABS/DPM vs. MARS agent.
Overview of supported workloads (VMs, SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, etc.).
High-level architecture and components.
Lab: Backing Up System State with MARS Agent.

Azure Site Recovery Fundamentals

ASR Architecture and Components.
What is Azure Site Recovery?
ASR features and architecture overview (Configuration/Process Servers, Mobility Service).
Core use cases (Disaster Recovery and Migration).
Differences between backup and site recovery.
Planning for disaster recovery in Azure.
Understanding the Replication Scenarios:
- Azure-to-Azure
- VMware/Hyper-V to Azure
- Physical Server to Azure
Recovery plans and test failovers.
Understanding Replication and Failover Mechanisms.
Networking Considerations for Site Recovery
Creating a disaster recovery plan using Azure Site Recovery.
Testing failover and failback scenarios.
Monitoring and managing Azure Site Recovery jobs.
Lab:Creating a Recovery Services Vault for Site Recovery.

Disaster Recovery for Azure VMs (Azure-to-Azure DR)

Prerequisites and planning (capacity, networking).
Enabling replication for Azure VMs.
Customizing networking and compute settings for failover.
Cross-region replication configuration.
Network mapping concepts.
Failover and test failover concepts with demos
Lab: Configuring Azure Site Recovery for Azure VMs.
Lab: Creating a disaster recovery plan and testing failover.

Protecting Physical and VMware/Hyper-V Workloads (On-Premises-to-Azure DR)

Configuration server deployment and management.
Process server architecture.
Mobility service installation options.
Replication health monitoring.
Replicating VMware VMs to Azure.
Replicating Hyper-V VMs to Azure.
Overview of physical server replication.
Lab: Setting up and configuring Azure Site Recovery for an on-premises VM.

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