The following key points must be considered before restoring a VM in order for the recovery process to go smoothly:
- If you are restoring a VM with managed disks, you should disable Storage service encryption for the storage account to which the disks will be restored.
- It is recommended to reinstall the extensions that were added to the VM before the backup.
- If you have set a static public IP for the VM before backup, the public IP for the restored VM will be dynamic to avoid a conflict with the original VM.
- If you want to add the restored VM to an availability set, you have to restore the disks first, then create a VM and attach the disks to it. You will be able to add the VM to an availability set during ...