Infrastructure modernization, from on-premises to Microsoft Azure with backup solution using Azure Files, Azure Backup and Recovery Services Vault.

In this project based on a real-world scenario, I acted as a Cloud Specialist to modernize and migrate an on-premises infrastructure environment to Microsoft Azure. I deployed a set of Virtual Machines, the infrastructure, a shared file system and replaced backups from tape to cloud backups with 99.9% (3-nines) availability.

I used a Resource Group to organize resources, a VNet with a subnet where we would have the provisioning of 2 Application VMs and Azure Files as a shared file system solution between our Application VMs.

All the power and reliability of Azure Backup with Azure Recovery Services have been used to configure the backup of files in the shared file system. Once again, Azure Backup has been used to move the files to the Recovery Services Vault.

Below are few screenshots:

Mounted the file share on the two Virtual machines.

Added the files to one of the machine and both machines shows them

Created a Backup task for the file share

Deleted file2.txt and file5.txt to simulate an unwanted deletion by a user which we will restore later from the Backup that was created.

Restoration process is started to restore back the two deleted files back to the place where they were.

We can see the two files are restore back now.

We can see how quickly we can moderanize an infrastructure running on-premises environment to run in Azure and how quickly we can take backups and restoration. Amazing!