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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By : Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

By: Leandro Eduardo S Carvalho, Leandro Carvalho

Overview of this book

Virtualization has proved that it can help organizations to reduce costs, and the Private Cloud has created a revolution in the way we manage and control our servers with centralization and elasticity. The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads."Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is the perfect accompaniment for Hyper-V administrators looking to take advantage of all the exciting new features the release has to offer. Through practical recipes, you'll master Hyper-V deployment, migration and management. "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" is an essential resource for any Hyper-V administrator looking to migrate, install and manage their virtual machine efficiently. With all the features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V covered, you will learn everything from installation to disaster recovery, security, high availability, configuration, automation, architecture and monitoring, all in a practical recipe format. The book also includes new features such as Storage and Shared Nothing Live Migration, Hyper-V Replica and Network Virtualization and much more.With "Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook" in hand, you'll be equipped to manage your Private Cloud with ease.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Monitoring Hyper-V Replica


Hyper-V Replica is one of the best features of Hyper-V so far. It is easy to set up, reliable, and comes with everything you need to have a great disaster recovery plan for your private cloud.

In case of a disaster, your servers or even the entire datacenter will be protected if Hyper-V Replica is in place. However, you need to ensure all your replica servers, virtual machines, logs, performance, and replication are working properly to certify that your servers will be up and running with the latest replication data in case of a failure.

This recipe will show you all the components on Window Server 2012 to provide the information, status, and reports you need to monitor Hyper-V Replica health.

Getting ready

These steps are based on an existing Hyper-V Replica environment. Perform the following steps on the primary Hyper-V server.

How to do it...

This recipe will show five options to monitor Hyper-V Replica: the Replication Health column, the Replication tab, the Replication...