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title: Virtual network business continuity
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description: Learn what to do in the event of an Azure service disruption impacting Azure Virtual Networks.
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services: virtual-network
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description: Learn what to do if there's an Azure service disruption impacting Azure Virtual Networks.
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author: asudbring
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manager: jefco
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ms.assetid: ad260ab9-d873-43b3-8896-f9a1db9858a5
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ms.service: virtual-network
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ms.workload: virtual-network
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 05/16/2016
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ms.date: 03/23/2023
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ms.author: allensu
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ms.reviewer: aglick
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# Virtual Network – Business Continuity
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## Overview
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A Virtual Network (VNet) is a logical representation of your network in the cloud. It allows you to define your own private IP address space and segment the network into subnets. VNets serves as a trust boundary to host your compute resources such as Azure Virtual Machines and Cloud Services (web/worker roles). A VNet allows direct private IP communication between the resources hosted in it. You can link a virtual network to an on-premises network through a VPN Gateway, or ExpressRoute.
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A VNet is created within the scope of a region. You can *create* VNets with same address space in two different regions (For example, US East and US West), but because they have the same address space, you can't connect them together.
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A Virtual Network is a logical representation of your network in the cloud. It allows you to define your own private IP address space and segment the network into subnets. Virtual networks serve as a trust boundary to host your compute resources such as Azure Virtual Machines and load balancers. A virtual network allows direct private IP communication between the resources hosted in it. You can link a virtual network to an on-premises network through a VPN Gateway, or ExpressRoute.
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A virtual network is created within the scope of a region. You can **create** virtual networks with the same address space in two different regions (For example, US East and US West), but because they have the same address space, you can't connect them together.
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## Business Continuity
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There could be several different ways that your application could be disrupted. A region could be completely cut off due to a natural disaster, or a partial disaster, due to a failure of multiple devices or services. The impact on the VNet service is different in each of these situations.
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There could be several different ways that your application could be disrupted. A region could be completely cut off due to a natural disaster, or a partial disaster, due to a failure of multiple devices or services. The effect on the virtual network service is different in each of these situations.
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**Q: If an outage occurs for an entire region, what do I do? For example, if a region is completely cut off due to a natural disaster? What happens to the virtual networks hosted in the region?**
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A: The virtual network and the resources in the affected region remains inaccessible during the time of the service disruption.
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![Simple Virtual Network Diagram](./media/virtual-network-disaster-recovery-guidance/vnet.png)
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:::image type="content" source="./media/virtual-network-disaster-recovery-guidance/vnet.png" alt-text="Diagram of a simple network.":::
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**Q: What can I do to re-create the same virtual network in a different region?**
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A: Virtual networks are fairly lightweight resources. You can invoke Azure APIs to create a VNet with the same address space in a different region. To recreate the same environment that was present in the affected region, you make API calls to redeploy the Cloud Services web and worker roles, and the virtual machines that you had. If you have on-premises connectivity, such as in a hybrid deployment, you have to deploy a new VPN Gateway, and connect to your on-premises network.
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A: Virtual networks are fairly lightweight resources. You can invoke Azure APIs to create a virtual network with the same address space in a different region. To recreate the same environment that was present in the affected region, redeploy the virtual machines and other resources. If you have on-premises connectivity, such as in a hybrid deployment, you have to deploy a new VPN Gateway, and connect to your on-premises network.
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To create a virtual network, see [Create a virtual network](manage-virtual-network.md#create-a-virtual-network).
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**Q: Can a replica of a VNet in a given region be re-created in another region ahead of time?**
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**Q: Can a replica of a virtual network in a given region be re-created in another region ahead of time?**
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A: Yes, you can create two VNets using the same private IP address space and resources in two different regions ahead of time. If you are hosting internet-facing services in the VNet, you could have set up Traffic Manager to geo-route traffic to the region that is active. However, you cannot connect two VNets with the same address space to your on-premises network, as it would cause routing issues. At the time of a disaster and loss of a VNet in one region, you can connect the other VNet in the available region, with the matching address space to your on-premises network.
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A: Yes, you can create two virtual networks using the same private IP address space and resources in two different regions ahead of time. If you're hosting internet-facing services in the virtual network, you could have set up Traffic Manager to geo-route traffic to the region that is active. However, you can't connect two virtual networks with the same address space to your on-premises network, as it would cause routing issues. At the time of a disaster and loss of a virtual network in one region, you can connect the other virtual network in the available region, with the matching address space to your on-premises network.
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To create a virtual network, see [Create a virtual network](manage-virtual-network.md#create-a-virtual-network).
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