Azure Backup of S2d VMs in Admin Center

Rahul Sukumar 141 Reputation points
2020-07-30T01:44:42.833+00:00

We have a 3-node S2D cluster on Windows Server 2019 that hosts all of our Windows VMs. I'd like to use Azure Backup to backup certain VMs using Windows Admin Center.

So far I can only find out how to backup the individual hosts with Azure Backup and not individual VMs. Is this possible to setup using just Windows Admin Center?

I see a way to setup individual VMs for Site Recovery (which I am not interested in) but no way to backup VMs to Azure. Thanks for your help.

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  1. SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 40,441 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-08-04T06:48:50.333+00:00

    @Rahul Sukumar Assuming you are referring to on-prem virtual machines, DPM or MABS doesn’t have integration with WAC yet.

    But you can certainly use MABS or DPM to backup VMs stored on S2D cluster as Hyper-V VM.
    https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/backup/back-up-hyper-v-virtual-machines-mabs

    Additional resources:
    For DPM refer to https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/system-center/dpm/dpm-overview?view=sc-dpm-2019
    MABS refer to: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup

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  1. Leon Laude 85,716 Reputation points
    2020-07-30T06:45:25.29+00:00

    Hi,

    The integration of Azure Backup in the Windows Admin Center can currently back up volumes and the Windows System state on-premises Windows physical or virtual servers.

    Best regards,
    Leon

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  2. Rahul Sukumar 141 Reputation points
    2020-07-31T00:02:43.853+00:00

    Thanks for the reply. I can figure out how to backup volumes and system state on the physical hosts, but I don't see a way to backup virtual servers. Can you provide me some help on how VMs can be backed up?

    For instance, if I select an individual VM, there is no options to connect it to Azure Backup. I only get this option when selecting an physical node. I'm running the latest (2007) version of Admin Center.

  3. Rahul Sukumar 141 Reputation points
    2020-07-31T00:49:45.92+00:00

    Is it possible I will need to setup an Azure Backup Server on-premise to allow backups of VMs to Azure? The documentation is not very clear.

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  4. SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 40,441 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-08-07T06:36:09.587+00:00

    @Rahul Sukumar Yes, you are right. :)
    Using MABS you can backup to cloud and using ASR you will be replicating your workloads to Azure. For failover you will be leveraging ASR.

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