Hyper-V Replica Capacity Planner Tool v 2.0

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Hyper-V administrators of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 can replicate their virtual machines from a primary server/cluster to a replica server/cluster for business continuity and disaster recovery purposes. The Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica provides server, storage and network provisioning guidance which would allow IT administrators to successfully plan for a Hyper-V Replica deployment.

What is New

Microsoft added in a few improvements to the tool. Here is what the updated Capacity Planner tool has:

  1. Support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 in a single tool
  2. Support for Extended Replication
  3. Support for virtual disks placed on NTFS, CSVFS, and SMB shares
  4. Monitoring of multiple standalone hosts simultaneously
  5. Improved performance and scale – up to 100 VMs in parallel
  6. Replica site input is optional – for those still in the planning stage of a DR strategy
  7. Report improvements – e.g.: reporting the peak utilization of resources also
  8. Improved guidance in documentation
  9. Improved workflow and user experience

Download tool from Source.

find the tool documentation here.