1. Open Azure Portal and Create a Recovery Services Vault
 Go to the Azure Portal, search for “Recovery Services vault”, and click “Create”.

• Enter a name like martyvault
• Select your subscription and resource group (or create one)
• Choose the region where your source VM is located

2. Enable Site Recovery for a VM
 After the vault is created:

• Open martyvault
• Under Getting Started, click Site Recovery
• Under “Where is your workload running?”, choose Azure
• For target, also choose Azure
• Click Prepare Infrastructure

3. Select Source and Target Settings

• Source: Select subscription, resource group, and the VM you want to protect ( martyvm)
• Target: Select target region, subscription, and create or select a new resource group for failover

4. Configure Replication Settings

• Select a storage account for replication (or create a new one)
• Use default replication policy or customize if needed
• Confirm settings and click Enable replication

5. Monitor Replication Progress

• Go to Site Recovery Jobs in the vault to monitor progress
• Once replication completes, you’ll see the VM under Replicated Items

6. Create a Recovery Plan (Basic)

• In the vault, go to Recovery Plans > + Recovery Plan
• Name it something like martyplan
• Select source region and replicated items ( martyvm)
• Click Create

7. Test the Recovery Plan

• Select the recovery plan (martyplan)
• Click Test Failover and choose a test network
• Monitor the job and verify test environment spins up correctly