Configuring backup and restore for FSLogix user profiles, personal virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), and golden images

In this section, we look at backing up and restoring Azure Virtual Desktop components. We first take a look at backup and restore.

Virtual machine backup and restore

When managing personal host pools, you may want to back up the session hosts when local profiles are used. In this section, we'll look at how to take a backup of a session host virtual machine.

We start by creating an Azure Recovery Vault for Azure Virtual Desktop, the steps for which are as follows:

1. First, navigate to the Azure portal.
2. Search for Backup Center in the Azure portal and navigate to the Backup Center dashboard.
3. Click on Vault, located in the main menu of the page.

Figure 16.6 – Azure Backup center page

4. Within the Create Vault page, select Recovery Services vault and then click Continue:

...