Advisor recommendations. See recommendations, Cost Management

agent-based dependency analysis, 74

agentless dependency analysis, 74

alerts, 150

• Advisor recommendation, 261–263

• Azure Backup, 9

• Azure Monitor, 122

• metric, creating, 123–134

• Resource Health, creating, 237–241

• VM Insight, setting up, 140–145

APIs, 251

Application Insights, 118, 149

ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 23

• Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery, 24–25

• Azure-to-Azure VM replication, setup, 28–32

  • cleanup test failover, 36–37

  • customize replica configurations, 33–34

  • monitor replication, 33

  • perform failover, 37–40

  • test failover, 35–36

• best practices, 67–68

• data security, 26

• failover, 27

  • planned, 28

  • test, 27–28

• Hyper-V-to-Azure disaster recovery, 40

  • cleanup test failover, 60–61

  • create Recovery Services vault, 46–47

  • data security, 44

  • failover and failback, 44

  • integrate Hyper-V environment for replication, 47–56

  • network requirements, 45

  • planned failover, 45

  • replication components, 41

  • replication policy, 41–44

  • setup replication, 56–60

  • test failover, 44–45, 60

  • unplanned failover, 45

• key features, 23–24

• multi-VM replication groups, 24, 26

• network security, 28

• pricing, 24

• recovery plans, 61–67

• replication, 23–24

• target environment configuration, 26–27

assessment

• Azure Migrate setup, 90–92

• tools, Azure Migrate, 70–71, 72–73

automation, ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 24

az backup protection enable-for-vm command, 19–21

az backup vault create command, 19–21

Azure AD, 5

Azure Automation, 24

Azure Backup

• alerts, 9

• archive tier, 22

• backup agents and solutions, 7

• Backup Center, 5

• backup compression, 8

• backup policy

  • retention, 8

  • scheduling, 8

• best practices, 21–22

• data encryption, 9

• data plane, 6

• design and deployment concepts and considerations, 4

• DPM (Microsoft System Center Data Protection), 4

• key features, 3–4

• management plane, 6

• MARS (Microsoft Azure Recovery Services), 7

• RBAC (role-based access control), 9–10

• Recovery Services vault, 4–5

• security, data in transit, 9

• service backup support, 2

• service charges, 3

• supported backup types, 7

Azure calculator, 247

Azure CLI, commands

• az backup protection enable-for-vm, 19–21

• az backup vault create, 19–21

• cd Azure:, 213

Azure Cloud Shell, 209-

• Azure drive, 213

• Azure file share, walkthrough, 210–212

• bash module, 214–219

• best practices, 222–223

• Editor, 213

• key features, 209–210

• PowerShell module, 219–222

• URL, embedding, 213

• vNET deployment, 213–214

Azure Cost Management, 245

• Budgets tool, 247–250

• Cost Analysis tool, 250–252

  • scheduling data exports, 255–258

  • viewing cost analysis data, 252–255

• Cost Planning tool, 246–247

• key features, 245–246

• recommendations, 258–259

  • digest, creating, 264–265

  • managing and creating alerts, 261–263

  • responding to, 259–261

Azure Data Box, 71

Azure Database Migration Service, 71

Azure Marketplace, walkthrough, 200–202

Azure Migrate

• assessment tools, 70–71

• best practices, 110

• Discovery and Assessment tool, 72–73

• features, 69

• key features, 70

• networking, 76–77

  • discovery and assessment, 77

  • replication and migration, 77–78

  • scaling, 77

• Server Migration Tool, 74–76

• setting up using Azure Portal, 78

  • cleanup test migration, 106–107

  • configure Azure Migrate appliance, 85–90

  • create Azure Migration appliance, 79–84

  • perform migration to Azure, 107–109

  • setup assessment, 90–92

  • setup replication appliance, 94–100

  • start VM replication, 100–104

  • test migration, 104–106

  • view assessment results, 92–94

Azure Migrate Discovery and Assessment, 72–73

Azure Monitor, 111

• agents, 149

• alerts, 122

• best practices, 149–150

• dashboards, 119–120

• data collection, 115–116

• data export, 122

• data ingestion, 115–116

• data retention, 116

• data security, 117

• data segregation, 116

• key benefits, 111–112

• Power BI, 121

• setting up using Azure Portal

  • configure Azure Storage monitoring, 145–147

  • configure Azure VM monitoring, 136–139

  • create Log Analytics workspace, 134–136

  • create metric alerts, 123–134

  • run queries on Azure Storage, 147–149

  • set up Azure VM Insights alerts, 140–145

• supported data types, 113

  • distributed traces, 114

  • log data, 114

  • metrics, 113

• third-party integrations, 122

• visualizations

  • curated, 117–118

  • Insights, 118–119

• Workbooks, 120–121

Azure Network Watcher

• Connection Monitor, 153–161

• Connection Troubleshoot, 179–182

• Diagnostic Logs, 187–189

• Effective Security Rules, identifying conflicting rules, 171–173

• enabling, 152

• IP Flow Verify, 163–166

• Next Hop, identifying the traffic route to a destination, 169–171

• NSG Diagnostic, 166–169

• NSG Flow Logs, 183–186

• Packet Capture

  • parameters, 176

  • walkthrough, 176–179

• tools, 151

• Topology Monitor, 161–163

• use cases, 151

• VPN Troubleshoot, 173–175

Azure Policy, 22

Azure Portal

• Azure Cloud Shell

  • bash module, walkthrough, 214–219

  • PowerShell module, walkthrough, 219–222

• Azure file share, walkthrough, 210–212

• Azure Marketplace, walkthrough, 200–202

• Azure Migrate, setup, 78

  • cleanup test migration, 106–107

  • configure Azure Migrate appliance, 85–90

  • create Azure Migration appliance, 79–84

  • perform migration to Azure, 107–109

  • setup assessment, 90–92

  • setup replication appliance, 94–100

  • start VM replication, 100–104

  • test migration, 104–106

  • view assessment results, 92–94

• Azure Monitor, setup

  • configure Azure Storage monitoring, 145–147

  • configure Azure VM monitoring, 136–139

  • create Log Analytics workspace, 134–136

  • create metric alerts, 123–134

  • run queries on Azure Storage, 147–149

  • set up Azure VM Insights alerts, 140–145

• Azure-to-Azure VM replication, setup, 28–32

  • cleanup test failover, 36–37

  • customize replica configurations, 33–34

  • monitor replication, 33

  • perform failover, 37–40

  • test failover, 35–36

• backing up Azure VMs, 10–19

• best practices, 207

• Budgets tool, walkthrough, 247–250

• checking a resources health, walkthrough, 241–242

• conflicting rules, identifying using Effective Security Rules, 171–173

• Connection Monitor instance, creating, 153–161

• Connection Troubleshoot walkthrough, 179–182

• creating a Recovery Services vault, 10–19

• creating a Resource Health alert, walkthrough, 237–241

• custom dashboards, creating, 197–200

• default view, 191–193

• diagnosing traffic restriction using IP Flow Verify, 163–166

• Diagnostic Logs walkthrough, 187–189

• help and support walkthrough, 202–206

• Hyper-V-to-Azure replication

  • cleanup test failover, 60

  • create Recovery Services vault, 46–47

  • integrate Hyper-V environment for replication, 47–56

  • perform failover, 60–61

  • setup replication, 56–60

  • test failover, 60

• identifying the traffic route to a destination using Next Hop, 169–171

• key features, 193

• NSG Flow Logs walkthrough, 183–186

• Packet Capture walkthrough, 176–179

• recommendations

  • creating a digest, walkthrough, 264–265

  • managing and creating alerts, 261–263

  • responding to, 259–261

• recovery plan walkthrough, 62–67

• scheduling data exports, walkthrough, 255–258

• security configuration issues, diagnosing with NSG Diagnostic, 166–169

• Service Health, walkthrough, 228–235

• settings, walkthrough, 194–197

• URLs, allowlisting, 194

• using VPN Troubleshoot, 173–175

• viewing cost analysis data, walkthrough, 252–255

Azure PowerShell

• backing up Azure VMs, 19–21

• commands

  • Enable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection, 19–20

  • New-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtectionPolicy, 19–20

  • New-AzRecoveryServicesVault, 19–20

• creating a Recovery Services vault, 19–21

Azure Status, 226

Azure Storage

• monitoring, 145–147

• querying, 147–149

Azure VMs. See also VM(s)

• backing up

  • using Azure Portal, 10–19

  • using Azure PowerShell, 19–21

• failover, 27

• Insights alerts, setting up, 140–145

• monitoring, 136–139

Azure Workbooks, 120–121

Azure-to-Azure VM replication, setup, 28–32

• cleanup test failover, 36–37

• customize replica configurations, 33–34

• monitor replication, 33

• perform failover, 37–40

• test failover, 35–36

backing up VMs

• using Azure Portal, 10–19

• using Azure PowerShell, 19–21

Backup Center, 5, 21

Backup Explorer, 9

backup(s). See also BCDR (business continuity and disaster recovery)

• Azure Backup-supported, 7

• compression, 8

• monitoring, 9

• policy

  • retention, 8

  • scheduling, 8

• snapshot, 6, 24

bash module, Azure Cloud Shell, 214–219

BCDR (business continuity and disaster recovery), 23

best practices

• ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 67–68

• Azure Backup, 21–22

• Azure Cloud Shell, 222–223

• Azure Migrate, 110

• Azure Monitor, 149–150

• Azure Portal, 207

• Resource Health, 243

• Service Health, 243

Budgets tool, walkthrough, 247–250

commands

• Azure CLI

  • az backup protection enable-for-vm, 19–21

  • az backup vault create, 19–21

  • cd Azure:, 213

• Azure PowerShell

  • Enable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection, 19–20

  • New-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtectionPolicy, 19–20

  • New-AzRecoveryServicesVault, 19–20

compression, backup, 8

Connection Monitor, 153–161

Connection Troubleshoot, 179–182

Cost Analysis tool, 250–252

• scheduling data exports, 255–258

• viewing cost analysis data, 252–255

Cost Planning tool, 246–247

creating

• alerts

  • metric, 123–134

  • Resource Health, 237–241

• Azure Migration appliance, 79–84

• custom dashboards in Azure Portal, 197–200

• Log Analytics workspace, 134–136

• Recovery Services vault

  • using Azure Portal, 10–19

  • using Azure PowerShell, 19–21

• support request, 202–206

• topology diagram, 162–163

curated visualization, 117–118

dashboards, 150

• Azure Monitor, 119–120

• Azure Portal, creating, 197–200

data collection, Azure Monitor, 115–116

data plane, Azure Backup, 6

data retention, Azure Monitor, 116

data security, Azure Monitor, 117

data segregation, Azure Monitor, 116

data types, Azure Monitor-supported, 113

• distributed traces, 114

• log data, 114

• metrics, 113

dependency analysis, 73–74

Diagnostic Logs, 187–189

diagrams, topology, creating, 162–163

differential backups, 7

disaster recovery. See DR (disaster recovery)

discovery and assessment, 72–73, 77

distributed traces, 114

DPM (Microsoft System Center Data Protection), 1, 4

DR (disaster recovery). See also recovery plans; recovery points

• Azure-to-Azure VM replication, setup, 28–32

  • cleanup test failover, 36–37

  • customize replica configurations, 33–34

  • monitor replication, 33

  • perform failover, 37–40

  • test failover, 35–36

• Hyper-V-to-Azure, 40

  • cleanup test failover, 60–61

  • create Recovery Services vault, 46–47

  • data security, 44

  • failover and failback, 44

  • integrate Hyper-V environment for replication, 47–56

  • network requirements, 45

  • planned failover, 45

  • replication components, 41

  • replication policy, 41–44

  • setup replication, 56–60

  • test failover, 44–45, 60

  • unplanned failover, 45

• recovery plans, 61–67

• recovery points, 25

dynamic thresholds, 150

Effective Security Rules, identifying conflicting rules, 171–173

Enable-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtection command, 19–20

enabling, Azure Network Watcher, 152

encryption, Azure Backup, 9

events, Service Health, 227

exports, scheduling, 255–258

extensions, Azure VM, 7

failover, 37–40

• Azure VMs, 27

• planned, 28

• target VM, 44

• test, 27–28, 35–37

features

• ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 23–24

• Azure Backup, 3–4

• Azure Cloud Shell, 209–210

• Azure Cost Management, 245–246

• Azure Migrate, 69, 70

• Azure Portal, 193

• Recovery Services vault, 4–5

full backups, 7

health monitoring tools

• Azure Status, 226

• Resource Health, 235–236

  • alerts, creating, 237–241

  • checking a resources health, 241–242

  • health status indicators, 236

• Service Health

  • events, 227

  • history, 227–228

  • walkthrough, 228–235

history, Service Health, 227–228

HTML code, embedding Cloud Shell in, 213

Hyper-V

• disaster recovery, 40

  • cleanup test failover, 60–61

  • create Recovery Services vault, 46–47

  • data security, 44

  • failover and failback, 44

  • integrate Hyper-V environment for replication, 47–56

  • network requirements, 45

  • planned failover, 45

  • replication components, 41

  • replication policy, 41

  • setup replication, 56–60

  • test failover, 44–45, 60

  • unplanned failover, 45

• replication, 77–78

incremental backups, 7

Insights, 118–119

• Application, 149

• Azure VM, setting up alerts, 140–145

IP Flow Verify, 163–166. See also networking

ISVs (independent software vendors), 70, 200

KPIs, 150

launch button, Cloud Shell, 213

Log Analytics, 6, 9, 22, 134–136

logs and log data, 114

• audit, 252

• data collection, 115–116

• Diagnostic Logs, 183–186

• NSG Flow Logs, 183–186

LRS (locally redundant storage), 116

MABS (Microsoft Azure Backup Server), 1

management plane, Azure Backup, 6

MARS (Microsoft Azure Recovery Services), 1, 7

metrics, 113, 123–134

migration. See also Azure Migrate

• agent-based, 76

• agentless, 76

• assessment tools, 70–71

• Azure Migrate Discovery and Assessment tool, 72–73

• Azure Migrate Server Migration Tool, 74–76

• dependency analysis, 73–74

• third-party solutions, 69

• tools, 71

• VM

  • cleanup test migration, 106–109

  • configure Azure Migrate appliance, 85–90

  • create Azure Migration appliance, 79–84

  • setup assessment, 90–92

  • setup replication appliance, 94–100

  • start VM replication, 100–106

  • view assessment results, 92–94

monitoring

• Azure Storage, 145–147

• Azure VMs, 136–139

• backup, 9

multi-VM replication groups, 24, 26

Network Insights, 118–119

networking

• Azure Migrate, 76–77

  • discovery and assessment, 77

  • replication and migration, 77–78

  • scaling, 77

• Cloud Shell deployment in a vNET, 213–214

• configuration issues, diagnosing, 166–169

• traffic restrictions, diagnosing, 163–166

New-AzRecoveryServicesBackupProtectionPolicy command, 19–20

New-AzRecoveryServicesVault command, 19–20

Next Hop, identifying the traffic route to a destination, 169–171

NSG Diagnostic, 166–169

NSG Flow Logs, 183–186

NSGs (network security groups), 28

OVA (Open Virtualization Appliance) template, 72

Packet Capture

• parameters, 176

• walkthrough, 176–179

physical server migration, 78

planned failover, 28, 45

policy(ies)

• Azure Backup, 8

• backup retention, 8

• backup scheduling, 8

• replication, 25, 41–44

Power BI, 121, 251

PowerShell module, Azure Cloud Shell, 219–222

pricing, ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 24

Private Link, 149

querying, Azure Storage, 147–149

RBAC (role-based access control), 6, 209

• accessing Azure Portal, 207

• Recovery Services vault, 5

• security roles, 9–10

recommendations, Cost Management, 258–259

• digest, creating, 264–265

• managing and creating alerts, 261–263

• responding to, 259–261

recovery plans, 61–67

recovery points, 25. See also DR (disaster recovery)

Recovery Services vault, 4–5

• creating

  • using Azure Portal, 10–19, 46–47

  • using Azure PowerShell, 19–21

• monitoring, 9

redundancy, Azure Monitor, 116

regulatory compliance, Azure Monitor, 116

replication, 23–24, 77–78. See also DR (disaster recovery)

• groups, 24, 26

• policy, 25, 41–44

• VM, 24–25, 28–40, 94–104

Resource Health, 235–236

• alerts, creating, 237–241

• best practices, 243

• checking a resources health, 241–242

• health status indicators, 236

responding to recommendations, 259–261

rules

• alert, 122

• conflicts, identifying, 171–173

• NSG, 28

scalability

• Azure Migrate, 77

• Recovery Services vault, 5

scheduling

• backups, 8

• data exports, 255–258

security

• ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 26

• Azure Backup, 3, 9

• configuration issues, diagnosing, 166–169

• network, 28

• Recovery Services vault, 4

service charges

• ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 24

• Azure Backup, 3

Service Health

• best practices, 243

• events, 227

• history, 227–228

• walkthrough, 228–235

SIEM (security information and event management) tools, 207

snapshots, 6, 24

SQL Server AlwaysOn, 24

storage. See also Azure Storage

• Azure file share, 210–211

• locally redundant, 116

support request, creating, 202–206

target environment configuration, ASR (Azure Site Recovery), 26–27

test failover, 27–28, 35–37, 44–45

third-party solutions, Azure Monitor, 122

tool(s)

• Azure Cost Management

  • Budgets, 247–250

  • Cost Analysis, 250–258

  • Cost Planning, 246–247

• Azure Network Watcher, 151

  • Connection Monitor, setting up with Azure Portal, 153–161

  • Connection Troubleshoot, 179–182

  • Diagnostic Logs, 183–186

  • Effective Security Rules, 171–173

  • IP Flow Verify, 163–166

  • Next Hop, 169–171

  • NSG Diagnostic, 166–169

  • NSG Flow Logs, 183–186

  • Packet Capture, 176–179

  • Topology Monitor, 161–163

  • VPN Troubleshoot, 173–175

• backup, 1–2, 3

• health monitoring

  • Azure Status, 226

  • Resource Health, 235–242

  • Service Health, 227–235

• migration, 71

  • assessment, 70–71

  • Azure Migrate Discovery and Assessment, 72–73

  • Azure Migrate Server Migration, 74–76

• SIEM (security information and event management), 207

Topology Monitor, 161–163

transaction log backups, 7

troubleshooting. See also Connection Troubleshoot; VPN Troubleshoot

unplanned failover, 45

URLs

• allowlisting, 194

• Cloud Shell, embedding in HTML code, 213

use cases, Azure Network Watcher, 151

visualizations, Azure Monitor

• curated, 117–118

• Insights, 118–119

VM(s). See also Hyper-V

• backing up

  • using Azure Portal, 10–19

  • using Azure PowerShell, 19–21

• discovery and assessment, 72–73, 77

• failover, 27

  • planned, 28, 45

  • test, 27–28, 44–45

  • unplanned, 45

• Insights, 118

• international standards compliance, 116

• recovery plans, 61–67

• replication, 24–25, 28–40, 77–78, 94–104

• replication groups, 24, 26

VMs

• monitoring, 136–139

• setting up Insights alerts, 140–145

VMware, 71, 78

vNET, Cloud Shell deployment, 213–214

VPN Troubleshoot, 173–175

Web App Migration Assistant, 71

zones, 5