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Mohamed Waly
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Mohamed Waly

Mohamed Waly has shown an interest in IT since he was a student. The journey began in 2011 when he joined the college of Computer Science, when he started learning how to work with Windows Server 2008, and was the youngest amongst his colleagues at the college to achieve certification. In 2012 he joined one of the greatest and most well-known student programs all over the world, the Microsoft Student Partner program. During the time he spent on the program, he took many communication and presentation skills sessions that helped him to deliver too many sessions since his second year at the college and the journey continues till now. In the meantime, Waly learned some other topics such as Exchange Server System Center, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure. He has worked in multiple communities, such as the Azure Community in Egypt, and the Open Source on Azure. Also, he served multiple internships during his time in the university to improve his experience. That's why, in July 2014, Microsoft recognized Mohamed Waly as the youngest MVP in the world. After finishing college, he worked for two of the biggest Microsoft Partners in Egypt—Global Knowledge and Blue Cloud Technologies—as a System Engineer and an Associate Infrastructure Consultant, respectively, serving Microsoft Customers in the EMEA region by designing and implementing virtualization and Cloud solutions.
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Data Protection and Business Continuity Using OMS

Our journey is coming to an end, and I hope that it has been a beneficial one for you. In this chapter, Azure Recovery Services will be covered. First off, you will be introduced to Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR). Then, you will learn how to implement Azure Backup for Azure VMs. Finally, you will learn how to implement Azure Site Recovery to replicate on-premises Hyper-V VMs to Azure.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Introducing Azure Recovery Services
  • Implementing Azure Backup
  • Implementing Azure Site Recovery

Introducing Azure Recovery Services

As mentioned in the previous chapter, Azure Recovery Services is a part of the Operations Management Suite. These services provide data protection using Azure Backup and business continuity Azure Site Recovery.

Introducing to Azure Backup

Backup has always been the X factor that saves an environment from being completely damaged or lost.

Backup is one of the oldest terminologies to be heard, and it has gone through many evolutions. Nowadays, there are many vendors offering backup solutions.

In 2014, Microsoft announced that it will support backup as a service on its cloud (Azure), as a part of Azure Recovery Services, and since then, Azure Backup has undergone many enhancements.

Simply put...

Implementing Azure Backup

In this section, we will go through a step-by-step guide to implement one of the Azure Backup solutions (Azure IaaS VM Backup).

Creating an Azure Recovery Services vault

Before backing up your data, you have to do some configuration, such as building a Recovery Services vault, which is the place where the backed-up data will be stored. Once you have done that, you can start backing the data up. To do so, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to All Services and search for Recovery Services Vault:
  1. A new blade will be opened where you can view the current recovery service vaults (if any). Click on Add to create a new one:
  1. A new blade will be opened where you can specify the following:
    • Name:...

Implementing Azure Site Recovery

In this section, we will go through how to implement Azure Site Recovery for Hyper-V hosts to replicate to Azure Site Recovery. However, before you get started, make sure you have virtual networks and storage accounts created on Azure so they can be used when the VMs/physical servers are failovered to Azure.

Like Azure Backup, a Recovery Services vault will be needed. In this scenario, we will use the same Recovery Services vault.

Preparing the infrastructure for replication

In this section, we will go through the required steps to prepare your infrastructure for replication:

  1. Navigate to Azure portal | All Services | Recovery Services vault | and select the Recovery Services vault that will...

Summary

This chapter continued to cover one of OMS' greatest services: Azure Recovery Services. As you have learned from this chapter, you should be able to protect your data with Azure Backup and keep your business continuity using Azure Site Recovery.

It's been a nice journey to cover some of the basics about Microsoft Azure so far, and how to work with the most common services. I hope you have gained the knowledge you wished for from this book, and I'd like to thank you for reading it.

Questions

  1. Which of the following Azure backup solutions can integrate with System Center products?
    • Azure Backup Server
    • System Center Data Protection Manager
    • Both of them
  2. Which of the following services can work without the Recovery Services vault?
    • Azure Site Recovery
    • Log Analytics
    • Azure Backup
    • None of them
  3. Accelerated Networking is not supported for the machines replicated from on-premises to ASR:
    • True
    • False
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Author (1)

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Mohamed Waly

Mohamed Waly has shown an interest in IT since he was a student. The journey began in 2011 when he joined the college of Computer Science, when he started learning how to work with Windows Server 2008, and was the youngest amongst his colleagues at the college to achieve certification. In 2012 he joined one of the greatest and most well-known student programs all over the world, the Microsoft Student Partner program. During the time he spent on the program, he took many communication and presentation skills sessions that helped him to deliver too many sessions since his second year at the college and the journey continues till now. In the meantime, Waly learned some other topics such as Exchange Server System Center, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure. He has worked in multiple communities, such as the Azure Community in Egypt, and the Open Source on Azure. Also, he served multiple internships during his time in the university to improve his experience. That's why, in July 2014, Microsoft recognized Mohamed Waly as the youngest MVP in the world. After finishing college, he worked for two of the biggest Microsoft Partners in Egypt—Global Knowledge and Blue Cloud Technologies—as a System Engineer and an Associate Infrastructure Consultant, respectively, serving Microsoft Customers in the EMEA region by designing and implementing virtualization and Cloud solutions.
Read more about Mohamed Waly