In the
Azure Snapshot Storage Settings page, you can specify a suffix for the resource group name which is used to create snapshots in an alternate resource group other than that of the resource itself or you can specify a specific Resource Group to store the snapshots. The alternate resource group must be created in the Azure portal.
About this task
You can also add Azure storage accounts which are required for cross-region copying of snapshots in CSM. The storage accounts must be created in the Azure portal for each region that you are copying to. The storage account type must be either
General-purpose v1 or
General-purpose v2. The
storage account that is created in the Azure portal is configured for an Azure account in CSM. Assign a storage account for each Azure region that you are copying to.
Steps
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In the
Cloud Accounts page, click
Snapshot Storage next to an Azure cloud account.
The
Azure Snapshot Storage Settings page is displayed.
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(Optional) To copy snapshots to an alternate resource group, select
Use Alternate Snapshot Resource Group and enter the suffix of the resource group to which the snapshots are copied or to copy snapshots to a specific resource group, select
Use a specific Resource Group
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For cross-region copying of snapshots, select a region and the corresponding storage account. You can select multiple regions and the storage accounts for each one of them.
Under
Cross-Region Configuration, all the added regions and storage accounts are listed.
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Click
Save.
