Monitor and Manage Recovery Services Vaults- Understanding Disaster Recovery
When you open a Recovery Services Vault from the list, the Overview dashboard for the selected vault will open, as shown in Figure 17.16. To monitor alerts or to view the management data regarding a Recovery Services Vault, open the vault to view the Overview dashboard. The dashboard provides a number of details regarding the vault. The tiles will show you items such as the status of critical and warning alerts, in- progress and failed backup jobs, and the amount of backup storage used. If you back up Azure VMs to the vault, the Backup Pre- Check Status tile will show any critical or warning items.
FIGURE 17.16 Recovery Services Vault Overview page
The Monitoring section will show you the results of predefined Backup Alerts and Backup
Jobs queries. It provides up- to- date information on Critical and Warning alerts for Backup Jobs (in the last 24 hours), Backup Pre- check Status (Azure VMs), Backup Jobs in progress, and jobs that have failed (in the last 24 hours), as shown in Figure 17.17.
FIGURE 17.17 Recovery Services Vault Monitoring section
The Usage tiles will show the number of backup items configured for the vault, and the amount of used backup storage separated by LRS and GRS, as shown in Figure 17.18.
FIGURE 17.18 Recovery Services Vault Usage section
To Manage Backup Alerts
To open the Backup Alerts menu, in the Recovery Services Vault menu (on the left-h and side), under Monitoring And Reports, select Backup Alerts. The Backup Alerts report will list all the alerts for the vault. By default, the Backup Alerts report tracks eight items about each alert:
■ Alert
■ Backup Item
■ Protected Server
■ Severity
■ Duration
■ Creation Time
■ Status
■ Latest Occurrence Time
The Backup Alerts report will list all the alerts for the vault and display an alert severity. There are three different alert levels:
Critical You will see this alert when backup jobs or recovery jobs fail, and when you stop protection on a server but retain the data.
Warning You will see this alert when backup jobs finish with warnings.
Informational Currently, no informational alerts are generated by the Azure Backup service.
Azure Backup Center
As I mentioned earlier, both Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery use a centralized management interface, known as the Backup Center, to make it easier to create policies to protect, monitor, and manage enterprise workloads across hybrid and cloud networks. I also discussed using the Azure Backup Center to create an Azure Recovery Services Vault earlier in this chapter.
Azure Backup Center is currently supported for the following:
■ Azure Blobs backup
■ Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server backup
■ Azure Files backup
■ Azure Managed Disks backup
■ Azure to Azure disaster recovery
■ Azure VM backup
■ SAP HANA on Azure VM backup
■ SQL in Azure VM backup
■ VMware and Physical to Azure disaster recovery
Here are some actions that you can perform by using the Backup Center:
■ Configure backup for your data sources
■ Create a new backup policy
■ Create a new vault
■ Restore a backup instance
■ Stop backup for a backup instance
■ Trigger an on-d emand backup for a backup instance
To get started using Backup Center, search for Backup Center in the Azure portal and navigate to the Backup Center dashboard. The dashboard will open an Overview blade, as shown in Figure 17.8 earlier.
The Overview blade has two tiles: Jobs and Backup Instances. The Jobs tile will show you a list of all backup- and restore- related jobs that were started in the past 24 hours. You will see a status of completed, failed, or in-p rogress. Selecting any of the numbers in the tile will show you more information pertaining to that particular job. The Backup Instances tile will show you a list of all the backup instances as well as all of the replicated items. Selecting any of the numbers in the tile will show you more information such as the data source type and protection state.
I will be covering a few of the things you can do using the Backup Center.