Merge pull request #232948 from AbhishekMallick01/Apr-1-2023-UltraSSD

Ultra SSD protection - public preview

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/backup/backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 title: Back up Azure VMs with Enhanced policy
 description: Learn how to configure Enhanced policy to back up VMs.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 03/15/2023
-ms.reviewer: geg
+ms.date: 04/05/2023
+ms.reviewer: sharrai
 ms.service: backup
 author: jyothisuri
 ms.author: jsuri
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Azure Backup now supports _Enhanced policy_ that's needed to support new Azure o
 
 >[!Important]
 >- [Default policy](./backup-during-vm-creation.md#create-a-vm-with-backup-configured) will not support protecting newer Azure offerings, such as [Trusted Launch VM](backup-support-matrix-iaas.md#tvm-backup), [Ultra SSD](backup-support-matrix-iaas.md#vm-storage-support), [Shared disk](backup-support-matrix-iaas.md#vm-storage-support), and Confidential Azure VMs.
->- Enhanced policy currently doesn't support protecting Ultra SSD. You can use [selective disk backup (preview)](selective-disk-backup-restore.md) to exclude these disks, and then configure backup.
+>- Enhanced policy now supports protecting Ultra SSD (preview). To enroll your subscription for this feature, [fill this form](https://forms.office.com/r/1GLRnNCntU).
 >- Backups for VMs having [data access authentication enabled disks](../virtual-machines/windows/download-vhd.md?tabs=azure-portal#secure-downloads-and-uploads-with-azure-ad) will fail.
 
 You must enable backup of Trusted Launch VM through enhanced policy only. Enhanced policy provides the following features:

articles/backup/backup-support-matrix-iaas.md

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 title: Support matrix for Azure VM backups
 description: Get a summary of support settings and limitations for backing up Azure VMs by using the Azure Backup service.
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 02/27/2023
+ms.date: 04/05/2023
 ms.custom: references_regions 
-ms.reviewer: geg
+ms.reviewer: sharrai
 ms.service: backup
 author: jyothisuri
 ms.author: jsuri
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ Restore files from network-restricted storage accounts | Not supported.
 Restore files on VMs by using Windows Storage Spaces | Not supported on the same VM.<br/><br/> Instead, restore the files on a compatible VM.
 Restore files on a Linux VM by using LVM or RAID arrays | Not supported on the same VM.<br/><br/> Restore on a compatible VM.
 Restore files with special network settings | Not supported on the same VM. <br/><br/> Restore on a compatible VM.
+Restore files from an ultra disk | Supported. <br/><br/>See [Azure VM storage support](#vm-storage-support).
 Restore files from a shared disk, temporary drive, deduplicated disk, ultra disk, or disk with a write accelerator enabled | Not supported. <br/><br/>See [Azure VM storage support](#vm-storage-support).
 
 ## Support for VM management
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ Adding a disk to a protected VM | Supported.
 Resizing a disk on a protected VM | Supported.
 Shared storage| Backing up VMs by using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) or Scale-Out File Server isn't supported. CSV writers are likely to fail during backup. On restore, disks that contain CSV volumes might not come up.
 [Shared disks](../virtual-machines/disks-shared-enable.md) | Not supported.
-Ultra SSD disks | Not supported. For more information, see [these limitations](selective-disk-backup-restore.md#limitations).
+<a name="ultra-disk-backup">Ultra SSD disks</a> | Supported with [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md). The support is currently in preview.       <br><br>    To enroll your subscription for this feature, [fill this form](https://forms.office.com/r/1GLRnNCntU).
 [Temporary disks](../virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview.md#temporary-disk) | Azure Backup doesn't back up temporary disks.
 NVMe/[ephemeral disks](../virtual-machines/ephemeral-os-disks.md) | Not supported.
 [Resilient File System (ReFS)](/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview) restore | Supported. Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) supports app-consistent backups on ReFS.

articles/backup/selective-disk-backup-restore.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: Selective disk backup and restore for Azure virtual machines
 description: In this article, learn about selective disk backup and restore using the Azure virtual machine backup solution.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 03/15/2023
+ms.date: 04/05/2023
 ms.custom: references_regions, devx-track-azurecli, devx-track-azurepowershell3
 ms.service: backup
 author: jyothisuri
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Azure Backup supports backing up all the disks (operating system and data) in a
 
 This is supported both for Enhanced Policy (preview) as well as Standard Policy.          This provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for your backup and restore needs. Each recovery point contains only the disks that are included in the backup operation. This further allows you to have a subset of disks restored from the given recovery point during the restore operation. This applies to both restore from snapshots and the vault.
 
+>[!Important]
+> [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md) now supports protecting Ultra SSD (preview). To enroll your subscription for this feature, [fill this form](https://forms.office.com/r/1GLRnNCntU).
+
 >[!Note]
 >- This is supported for both backup policies - [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md) and [Standard policy](backup-during-vm-creation.md#create-a-vm-with-backup-configured).
 >- The *Selective disk backup and restore in Enhanced policy (preview)* is available in public Azure regions only.
@@ -26,7 +29,7 @@ This solution is useful particularly in the following scenarios:
 1. If you have critical data to be backed up in only one disk, or a subset of the disks and don’t want to back up the rest of the disks attached to a VM to minimize the backup storage costs.
 2. If you've other backup solutions for part of your VM or data. For example, if you back up your databases or data using a different workload backup solution and you want to use Azure VM level backup for the rest of the data or disks to build an efficient and  robust system using the best capabilities available.
 
-3. If you're using [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md), you can use this solution to exclude unsupported disks (Ultra Disks, Shared Disks) and configure a VM for backup. 
+3. If you're using [Enhanced policy](backup-azure-vms-enhanced-policy.md), you can use this solution to exclude unsupported disks (Shared Disks) and configure a VM for backup. 
 
 Using PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Azure portal, you can configure selective disk backup of the Azure VM. Using a script, you can include or exclude data disks using their *LUN numbers*. The ability to configure selective disks backup via the Azure portal is limited to the *Backup OS Disk* only for the Standard policy, but can be configured for all data disks for Enhanced policy.
 
@@ -337,7 +340,7 @@ Selective disks backup functionality for Standard policy isn't supported for cla
 
 The restore options to **Create new VM** and **Replace existing** aren't supported for the VM for which selective disks backup functionality is enabled.
 
-Currently, Azure VM backup doesn't support VMs with ultra-disks or shared disks attached to them. Selective disk backup for Standard policy can't be used to in such cases, which exclude the disk and backup the VM. You can use selective disk backup with Enhanced policy to exclude these disks and configure backup.
+Currently, Azure VM backup doesn't support VMs with shared disks attached to them. Selective disk backup for Standard policy can't be used to in such cases, which exclude the disk and backup the VM. You can use selective disk backup with Enhanced policy to exclude these disks and configure backup.
 
 If you use disk exclusion or selective disks while backing up Azure VM, _[stop protection and retain backup data](backup-azure-manage-vms.md#stop-protection-and-retain-backup-data)_. When resuming backup for this resource, you need to set up disk exclusion settings again.
 
@@ -379,9 +382,9 @@ If you're using standard policy, the Selective disk backup features let you save
 
 If you're using Enhanced policy, the snapshot is taken only for the OS disk and the data disks that you've included.
 
-### I can't configure backup for the Azure virtual machine by excluding ultra disk or shared disks attached to the VM
+### I can't configure backup for the Azure virtual machine by excluding shared disks attached to the VM
 
-If you're using Standard policy, Azure VM backup doesn't support VMs with ultra-disk or shared disk attached to them and it is not possible to exclude them with selective disk backup and then configure backup.
+If you're using Standard policy, Azure VM backup doesn't support VMs with shared disk attached to them and it is not possible to exclude them with selective disk backup and then configure backup.
 
 If you're using Enhanced policy, you can exclude the unsupported disks from the backup via selective disk backup (in the Azure portal, CLI, PowerShell, and so on), and configure backup for the VM.