About Instant Cloud Recovery

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
Backup Exec users get Disaster Recovery powered by Azure Site Recovery. You can set up the Microsoft Azure infrastructure in Backup Exec that helps you save time and additional costs.
You can monitor the health of virtual machines that are managed from Azure Site Recovery. You can independently day-to-day monitoring of virtual machines from the Backup Exec console.
Instant Cloud Recovery helps you enable replication for your on-premises virtual machines (VMware and Hyper-V), whose hosts are configured with Azure Site Recovery. If an outage or failure occurs, you can failover the replicated virtual machines to Azure to ensure that they are available for business operations.
image
See Instant Cloud Recovery tab overview in Backup Exec.
See Requirements to configure Instant cloud recovery in Backup Exec.
See Preconfigurations to be completed in the Azure portal.
See How to configure Azure resources.
See How to enable replication for virtual machines.
See How to manage failover for a virtual machine.
See How to manage replication for virtual machines.
See How to change the Subscription or Recovery Services Vault.
See How to view configuration details.
See How to renew the Backup Exec certificate.
See How to prepare a new infrastructure.
See How to manually refresh the view of virtual machines.
See How to remove a configured Azure resource from Backup Exec.
See How to view virtual machine details.
Related information