KB ID 0001511

Problem

Veeam is both a great company, and backup and recovery is the best product in its class by a country mile, (yes Zerto is great but it costs a fortune!) With Backup and Recovery 9.5 Update 4. You can recover a VM straight into Azure, (and Azure Stack).

Which pretty much means you can use Veeam to Migrate your VMs (or physical machines) from vCenter (or Hyper-V) into Azure/Azure Stack. You need to have a successful backup, (or replication) in Veeam before you start. (That goes without saying but I’ll get emails if I don’t point that out!)

Obviously you also need an Azure Subscription, and you will need to have (pre configured) the following;

• A Resource Group
• A Storage Account
• A Virtual Network 
• A Network Security Group

Veeam B&R Server Pre-Requisites

Veeam Backup and Recovery Download

Veeam Backup For Azure Download

You will need to disable IE Enhanced Security, (or as I refer to it, the “Randomly break things, before you discover it’s on and disable it feature”).

Add the following URLs to IE’s trusted sites & ensure Protected Mode is not enabled for this zone, (this is the default as shown);

• https://login.live.com/
• https://login.microsoftonline.com/
• https://secure.aadcdn.microsoftonline-p.com/
• https://auth.gfx.ms/
• about:security_veeam.backup.shell.exe?ver=95u4

Add in the Azure PowerShell Snap-ins;

[box]Install-Module -Name AzureRM.Automation -RequiredVersion 5.1.1[/box]

To connect to Azure you will need an Access Key > Login to Azure > All services > Storage Accounts > Select your storage Account > Access Keys > Copy a key to the clipboard.

Veeam: Adding Azure Accounts

From the main menu > Manage Cloud Credentials > Add > Microsoft Azure Storage Account > Supply your Azure Login > Paste in the key (from above) > OK.

Repeat the procedure, but this time add ‘Microsoft Azure compute account”.

Next.

Microsoft Azure > Next

Add > Supply your Azure credentials > OK > Next.

Finish (that was easy!)

Veeam: Restore or Migrate a VM to Azure

Home > Restore > (select the platform, here I only have VMware vSphere) > Restore from Backup.

Entire VM Restore > Restore to Microsoft Azure.

Add in the VM to restore > Next > Select the subscription and location  > Next.

Edit > Add in your Azure Storage Account > Select a VM size (WARNING The bigger, the more expensive!) > OK > Next > Group > Select your Resource Group > OK > Next.

Network > Add in your virtual network and subnet > Next > Group > Add in your Azure Network Security Group > Next.

I’m not going to scan my VM, but if you are recovering from an infection you might want to > Next > Next.

Finish > When successfully completed > Close.

Give your VM a while to power on, you can enable boot diagnostics to see if it is at the logon screen (Note: you need to manually refresh this screen).

Then you can connect via RDP. Note: You may need to enable TCP Port 3389 inbound before this will work.

Don’t forget to remove VMware tools!

Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links

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