A recovery plan that brings machines back as Azure IaaS VMs in Microsoft Azure, using backups of vSphere VMs, Hyper-V VMs or Veeam agents.
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Terms in this definition
- recovery plan
The core unit Orchestrator uses to recover machines, combining inventory groups with steps in order. Plans come in five types: replica, CDP replica, restore, storage and cloud.
- IaaS
Infrastructure as a service: the customer runs and maintains virtual machines including their operating systems, for instance SQL Server hosted on an Azure VM.
- Virtual machines
Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- Hyper-V
The hypervisor built into Windows. The VMs for the Azure Extended Network appliance require the Hyper-V role, using nested virtualisation, and an external virtual switch for each NIC.
Related terms
- Azure proxy appliance
Moves VM data into Azure while a cloud plan is restoring machines. Orchestrator picks one automatically; to force a particular appliance, name it under Cloud proxy in the Azure recovery location.
- Azure VM configuration
A pairing of VM series and disk type that Orchestrator applies when building VMs for a cloud plan restore. You define these on an Azure recovery location, three at most.
- Microsoft Defender for App Service
Protects App Service apps by detecting attacks against them, such as traffic arriving from anomalous IP addresses; offered as a Defender for Cloud plan.
- Microsoft Defender for Containers
Secures container images and Kubernetes clusters wherever they run, whether AKS with ACR, EKS with ECR or GKE with Artifact Registry, and includes vulnerability scanning of registry images. Offered as a Defender for Cloud plan.
- Microsoft Defender for Servers
Covers Arc-enabled servers and Azure VMs in Defender for Cloud. Plan 1 brings integration with Defender for Endpoint; Plan 2 goes further with agentless scanning, file integrity monitoring and alerts from Defender for DNS.
- Microsoft Defender for SQL
Combines SQL vulnerability assessment with Advanced Threat Protection, which alerts on brute force, SQL injection and anomalous access. As a Defender for Cloud plan it detects threats; it doesn't mask or encrypt data.