Backup and recovery
CoreRecovery Services vault
Vault used by supported Azure Backup and Site Recovery workloads.
Key points
- Management entity for supported Azure Backup workloads including Azure VMs and for Site Recovery.
- Stores protection policies, protected items, recovery points, replication state, jobs, and alerts.
- Vault region and supported workload relationships constrain configuration.
Best-known use cases
- Protect Azure VMs with backup policies.
- Configure Azure-to-Azure Site Recovery.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Recovery Services vault vs Backup vault: VM backup and Site Recovery support vs separate newer backup data-source support.
- Vault vs recovery point: management container vs one restorable historical state.
Key takeaway
Choose a Recovery Services vault when the named workload or Site Recovery operation requires that vault type.
Related services
- Backup vault
- Azure Backup
- Azure Site Recovery
Relevant exam tasks
- D5.2.S1 — Create a Recovery Services vault
- D5.2.S2 — Create an Azure Backup vault
- D5.2.S3 — Create and configure a backup policy
- D5.2.S4 — Perform backup and restore operations by using Azure Backup
- D5.2.S5 — Configure Azure Site Recovery for Azure resources
- D5.2.S6 — Perform a failover to a secondary region by using Site Recovery
- D5.2.S7 — Configure and interpret reports and alerts for backups