Windows Server 2012 Virtualization - Hyper-V Replica

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Rob Waggoner

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Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 includes some new capabilities.  Today I want to walk through the setup of one of those capabilities called Hyper-V Replica.  Hyper-V Replica provides a way to replicate a Virtual Machine to another Hyper-V server in case the primary Hyper-V hosts fails.  The best part about Hyper-V replica is that it doesn’t require shared storage; just two 2012 Servers running Hyper-V.  This video discusses replication from one Hyper-V Server to another Hyper-V server.  You could of course also replicate from one 2012 Hyper-V Cluster (or stand alone 2012 Hyper-V Server) to a second 2012 Hyper-V Cluster (or stand alone 2012 Hyper-V Server) as well.

There is a great whitepaper written by Chuck Timon, one of our Senior Support Escalation Engineers.  Chuck does a good job of walking through all of the details around Hyper-V Replica here.

 

From Chuck’s Whitepaper, there are four primary deployment scenarios he considers for Hyper-V Replica:

· Head Office and Branch Office (HO-BO)

· Enterprise Datacenter

· Hosting Provider Datacenter

· Customer Office and Hosting Provider Datacenter (Cross-Premise)

 

If you’re not up for the details of Chuck’s Whitepaper, there is a good TechNet article on Hyper-V Replica here.

This session is one part of a whole series of screen casts around Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012, you can go this link to access the whole series.

So you want to get started with (Windows Server 2012) Hyper-V? Start here! – In Summary

Until next time,

Rob

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