About IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID

IBM Storage Protect for Cloud ensures the resiliency of service in the event of a disaster by quickly recovering lost and corrupted content from your backup. IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID offers data recovery capabilities for your Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Storage (blob storage and file share), Admin Portal Settings, Azure SQL (for Azure SQL databases), and Azure DevOps.

The new redesigned user interface available since the March 2024 release, is now the primary UI of the solution.

IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID is now only available in the following data centers: Canada Central (Toronto), Germany West Central (Frankfurt), UK South (London), East US (Virginia), Switzerland North (Zurich), and Australia East (New South Wales). In addition, if your browser’s first preferred language is French, or German, the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID interface will be displayed in French, or German. In other cases, the interface will be displayed in English.

Note: To access the user guide, expand the list next to your account name and click the User Guide.

The dashboard on the Home page show the latest activities, status of different types of jobs for different services and objects, backup object summary, restore job summary, the storage space used by each service, and the storage profile usage rank.

The Backup page shows the Microsoft Entra ID tile, the Virtual Machine tile, the Azure Storage tile, the Admin Portal Settings tile, the Azure Sql tile, and the Azure DevOps tile.

Through each service tile, you can view the backup and restore details of its latest jobs and update the backup scopes and frequency.

If you are in trial, your experience with the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID will be limited:
  • Your trial instance of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure VMs, Storage, and Entra ID will use the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud default storage to store your backup data by default, and the data retention period is one month.
  • Virtual Machine backup service in the trial only allows one backup scope and protects up to 5 Azure VMs.
  • Microsoft Entra ID backup service in the trial only allows you to protect one Microsoft Entra tenant, and the backup jobs in trial will not restrict the number of the objects to protect in your Microsoft Entra tenant.
  • Azure Storage backup service in the trial only allows one backup scope for Blob storage and file share respectively. You can select up to 5 blob containers or 5 file shares for each backup scope. The backup job will protect up to 5 folder-level objects within the selected storage and the storage space for backup data can be at most 25 GB.
  • Admin Portal Settings service in the trial only allows one backup scope.
  • Azure SQL backup service in the trial only allows one backup scope to protect up to 5 databases.
  • Azure DevOps backup service in the trial only allows one backup scope to protect up to 5 projects.