Restoring or recovering VMs to existing or new Azure Virtual Machines

There are several restore options available to administrators when attempting to recover Azure VMs from the recovery points stored within Azure Recovery Services vaults. Let’s review some of the restore options:

• Create a new VM allows you to create a new virtual machine quickly and efficiently from a selected restore point, giving you flexibility in naming and placing the resource group, the storage location, and the virtual network for the restored VM.
• Restore disk recovers a disk that can be used to create a new VM or add to an existing VM. Template functionality is available for customizing the destination VM for creation.
• Replace existing restores the disk directly on top of the existing disk. This requires that the current VM persists/exists.
• Cross Region (secondary region) allows you to restore the Azure VM and selected recovery point if – and only if – the backup is...