Instant Cloud Recovery tab overview in Backup Exec

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
On the Instant Cloud Recovery tab, you can manage disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. You can monitor the replication health of virtual machines and enable replication of on-premises virtual machines, whose hosts are configured with Azure Site Recovery.
With the Instant Cloud Recovery tab you can also refresh the view of virtual machines in Backup Exec, change the Subscription and Recovery Services Vault, view error details, renew certificate, view virtual machine details from the Azure portal, manage failover from the Azure portal, create new infrastructure from the Azure portal, and delete the Azure resource configuration from Backup Exec.
You can view the protection status, replication health, and validation errors for a virtual machine.
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Table:Disaster Recovery to Cloudtab

Group Item Description
Manage Manage Failover Lets you manage failover only for a virtual machine that is replicated or protected.
This option takes you to the Azure portal to manage the failover.
See How to manage failover for a virtual machine .
Manage Manage Replication Lets you manage replication for virtual machines of a configured Recovery Services
Vault from the Azure portal.
This option takes you to the Azure portal to manage the replication.
See How to manage replication for virtual machines .
Manage View Error Details Lets you view errors for a virtual machine. Before you protect a virtual machine, you must resolve any validation errors that are identified.
See How to view error details .
Update Operations Change Subscription or Vault Lets you change the Azure Subscription or Recovery Services Vault for Backup Exec to monitor and manage Azure Site Recovery resources.
See How to change the Subscription or Recovery Services Vault .
Update Operations Refresh View Lets you manually refresh the view of the virtual machines based on the Subscription and Recovery Services Vault that you selected.
See How to manually refresh the view of virtual machines .
Update Operations Renew Certificate Lets you renew the Backup Exec certificate that connects you to the Azure portal.
See How to renew the Backup Exec certificate .
Configure Configure Azure Resources Lets you configure Azure resources by selecting a Subscription and an existing Azure Recovery Services Vault or create a new Azure Recovery Services Vault. Based on your selection, you can see a list of virtual machines that are available in the configured Azure Recovery Services Vault.
See How to configure Azure resources .
Configure View Configuration Details Lets you view the configured Azure resource details.
See How to view configuration details .
Configure Prepare New Infrastructure Lets you prepare new infrastructure for the configured Recovery Services Vault on the Azure portal.
This option takes you to the Azure portal to prepare the new infrastructure.
See How to prepare a new infrastructure .
Configure Remove Configuration Lets you delete the configured Azure resources and the view of the virtual machines from Backup Exec.
See How to remove a configured Azure resource from Backup Exec .
- Virtual Machine Details Lets you view details only for a protected virtual machine in Backup Exec on the Azure portal.
This option takes you to the Azure portal to view the virtual machine details.
See How to view virtual machine details .