 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Azure Unblogged. Today, we're going to talk about Azure Backup Center and how it can help you monitor and operate your environment for backup and restores. With us, we have Aruna Samandra, Principal PM for the Azure Backup Team, and we're going to talk about this right now. Hey, Aruna. Good morning. Hey, how are you? I'm good. Welcome back. Thank you. We've had a few of those videos already on the overview of Azure Backup Center, how to report on an optimizer environment. What about the day-to-day operations and monitoring of that? What can we drill down on for those? Great. Let's talk about that today. One of the things that is core for people who are responsible for backup management is the day-to-day monitoring in terms of tracking if there are any failed jobs. You also want to see which jobs have passed. You might get a service request to go restore a particular workload. So far, what has happened is, doing this has been harder if it is a large distributed estate. You need to know exactly which vault you need to go into and backup and restore from. With Azure Backup Center, this becomes super easy to do again because it's one single place to go to. Let me show you through the portal how it is easy to do that. Here again, we have our overview page. You see this quick glance of jobs that gives you information about some of the key things that you want on a daily basis. It's not showing you reporting information. It's not showing you long-standing information. It's just showing you critical information of the last 24 hours from a jobs perspective. In this case, I have to complete it. For example, maybe you have very few restores per day, but suddenly there are so many restores that are happening. You want to understand why that is happening. So all of that information is up there for you across all of the subscriptions that you are owning. You can then take the corrective actions or analysis based on that information. We looked at how jobs gives you a quick glance view. Another core aspect of daily operations that comes up if you're doing backup management is service requests for restore. With Backup Center, right here at the top level, you have a button for restore. You click that button, you pick the workload that you got to restore for, maybe someone asked you to restore a virtual machine, maybe someone asked you to restore a blob, whichever request you got, you select that workload, you select the backup instance. You type in the name of the backup instance that you got a service request for, you select that and that's it. You proceed and it takes you through the entire restore process again. Super easy to do restore right here from Backup Center. Okay. This is not for users to restore their own files. This is for the administrators to act on service requests to do restores across their entire organization. Yes. So let me put it this way, right? Backup Center allows you to have a focus on backup for everything that you have access for. So in your organization, if the governance rules have been set up such that you are responsible for also doing backup for your virtual machine, you can actually see it not just in Backup Center, but also in your VM blade through the backup experience. And you can do a self-service restore from there as well. Backup Center is typically more useful if you are a backup admin who has got a larger set of data sources that they're managing. So this becomes easy for one single VM to go and search. But if you were a user who just had your VM, you knew exactly which one it was, you actually can just go to the VM experience itself. You'll see backup right there and then you click Restore and you're able to install it in there. Yeah. Cause this as I see on the screen, like you've got multiple subscriptions. So if you're a backup administrator, you can operate it across all subscriptions, all resource groups, and then you don't have to hunt down that one VM where you need it. It's going to be showed right there in the interface for you. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. All the subscriptions, all your resource groups, all your locations even, right? So if you're a backup admin, you just take super easy to do it from once in a place. That's perfect. This was great. One quick question though. I know some of our audience may have questions as to how do I like build an ARM template with backup? So that already enrolled in backup policy, how do I modify policy? Is there a location for me to get some of that information? Perfect. One of the capabilities that we've added in backup center is this view for community. This is our community hub, which is aimed at helping customers who are using automation, templates, and things like that within their organization. So right here, you will see a link to the ARM templates, quick start. You will see links to the Azure policy community. You also have links to PowerShell samples that have been written that help you use our PowerShell to do further automation. Yep. And you also have, maybe you're using Oracle databases and you want to get database consistent snapshots. Now with Azure backup, you actually have these scripts that are supported by Microsoft that you can use for taking VM backups for these databases and still have them be database consistent. So you have links to those scripts as well right here from the community page. That's wonderful actually. Didn't know about that capabilities, but I'll definitely take advantage of it. I love going through samples and seeing how I can use that and modify them for my own benefits in my own environment. So that's fantastic. Thank you for that. So now we are at the end of our video. Thank you so much for spending the time with us again. We've covered monitoring, operation, community, getting started. So thank you again, Aruna. My pleasure. Thank you so much. And we'll see you on the next episode of Azure Unblogged.