You now know that High Availability and disaster recovery are two completely different and independent architectures. You can now leverage the best of both worlds and protect your Hyper-V environment from common disasters, even via manual configuration, PowerShell scripting, or through end-to-end solutions such as Azure Site Recovery.

With the knowledge about backup architectures and tools, you are able to secure your virtual machine content even in case of a huge disaster.

Continue now to chapter Chapter 4, Storage Best Practices, to learn more about the great new storage options that are around with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V.