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Azure Virtual Machines restore service supports restoring the VMs, disks, or files to original locations, or to another location with different settings. The file-level export job for Azure VMs supports both VMs of Linux system and Windows system, and the file-level export/index generation is also supported for the disks with over 8 TB size. Refer to the following tables for the supported and unsupported properties or settings in the data recovery.
VM Compute
| VM Compute | Restore to original | Restore to another location or with different settings |
|---|---|---|
| VM Size | Supported | Supported |
| VMs in Availability Sets | Supported | Supported |
| VMs in Availability Zones | Supported | Supported |
| VMs that are deployed with Hybrid Use Benefit | Supported | Supported |
| VMs that are deployed from Azure Marketplace | Supported | Supported |
| VMs that are deployed from a custom image | Supported | Supported |
| VMs that are migrated to Azure | Supported | Supported |
| Diagnostic Settings | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Gen2 VM | Supported | Supported |
| VMs with locks | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Spot VMs | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Scale Sets | Unsupported | Unsupported |
VM Settings
| VM Settings | VM Settings | VM Settings | Restore to original | Restore to another location or with different settings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Subscription | Subscription | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Resource Group | Resource Group | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Virtual Machine Name | Virtual Machine Name | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Region | Region | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Image(Associated with OS disk) | Image(Associated with OS disk) | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Azure Spot Instance | Azure Spot Instance | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Basic | Size | Size | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Username | Username | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Password | Password | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Inbound port rules | Inbound port rules | Supported | Supported |
| Basic | Licensing | Licensing | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Basic | Scale Sets | Scale Sets | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Disks | VM disk encryption | Encryption at host | Supported | Supported |
| Disks | OS disk type | Premium SSD | Supported | Supported |
| Disks | OS disk type | Standard SSD | Supported | Supported |
| Disks | OS disk type | Standard HDD | Supported | Supported |
| Disks | Encryption type | Encryption type | Supported | Supported |
| Disks | Managed/Unmanaged disks*Note: The Unmanaged disk can be restored as an Unmanaged or Managed disk, but the Managed disk can only be restored as a Managed disk. | Managed/Unmanaged disks*Note: The Unmanaged disk can be restored as an Unmanaged or Managed disk, but the Managed disk can only be restored as a Managed disk. | Supported | Supported |
| Disks | Shared disk | Shared disk | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Disks | Temporary disk | Temporary disk | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Networking | Virtual network | Virtual network | Supported | Supported |
| Networking | Subnet | Subnet | Supported | Supported |
| Networking | Public IP | Public IP | Supported | Supported |
| Networking | Network security group | Network security group | Supported | Supported |
| Networking | Accelerated networking | Accelerated networking | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Networking | Load balancing | Load balancing | Supported | Supported |
| Management | Boot diagnostics | Boot diagnostics | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | Enable OS guest diagnostics | Enable OS guest diagnostics | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | Diagnostics storage account | Diagnostics storage account | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | System assigned managed identity | System assigned managed identity | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | Login with Azure AD | Login with Azure AD | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | Auto-shutdown | Auto-shutdown | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | Enable backup | Enable backup | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Management | Guest OS updates | Guest OS updates | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Advanced | Extensions | Extensions | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Advanced | Custom data | Custom data | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Advanced | User data | User data | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Advanced | Host group | Host group | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Advanced | Proximity placement group | Proximity placement group | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Advanced | VM generation | VM generation | Supported | Supported |
| Tags | Tags | Tags | Unsupported | Unsupported |
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