Storage Redudancy

Author: David Curwin

articles/backup/backup-azure-recovery-services-vault-overview.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Within an Azure subscription, you can create up to 500 Recovery Services vaults
 
 ## Comparing Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults
 
-If you still have Backup vaults, they are being auto-upgraded to Recovery Services vaults. By November 2017, all Backup vaults have been upgraded to Recovery Services vaults.
+If you still have Backup vaults, they're being auto-upgraded to Recovery Services vaults. By November 2017, all Backup vaults have been upgraded to Recovery Services vaults.
 
 Recovery Services vaults are based on the Azure Resource Manager model of Azure, whereas Backup vaults were based on the Azure Service Manager model. When you upgrade a Backup vault to a Recovery Services vault, the backup data remains intact during and after the upgrade process. Recovery Services vaults provide features not available for Backup vaults, such as:
 
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ Recovery Services vaults are based on the Azure Resource Manager model of Azure,
 
 - **Instant restore for IaaS VMs**: Using Recovery Services vaults, you can restore files and folders from an IaaS VM without restoring the entire VM, which enables faster restore times. Instant restore for IaaS VMs is available for both Windows and Linux VMs. [Learn more](backup-instant-restore-capability.md)
 
+## Storage settings in the recovery services vault
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+A Recovery Services vault is an entity that stores the backups and recovery points created over time. The Recovery Services vault also contains the backup policies that are associated with the protected virtual machines.
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+Azure Backup automatically handles storage for the vault. You specify how that [storage is replicated](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/backup/backup-create-rs-vault#set-storage-redundancy).
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+To learn more about storage redundancy, see these articles on [geo](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs) and [local](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-lrs) redundancy.
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 ## Managing your Recovery Services vaults in the portal
 
 Creation and management of Recovery Services vaults in the Azure portal is easy because the Backup service integrates into other Azure services. This integration means you can create or manage a Recovery Services vault *in the context of the target service*. For example, to view the recovery points for a VM, select your VM, and click **Backup** in the Operations menu.