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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Chapter 3. Setting Up Hyper-V Replication

In this chapter we will introduce Hyper-V replication, which is also called Hyper-V Replica. Hyper-V Replica was first introduced within Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. This new feature allows an administrator to replicate a production virtual machine from one Hyper-V server to another Hyper-V Replica server in the same site or any other site. The Hyper-V Replica feature provides a great level of disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, where critical workload can be set to replicate to any Hyper-V server based on Windows Server 2012, regardless of its location and administrative boundary. Once the virtual machine is being replicated to the Hyper-V Replica server, an administrator can anytime perform a planned or unplanned failover, in which the replicated instance of the virtual machine is mounted on the Hyper-V Replica server. We will go deeper into the Hyper-V Replica architecture, and also see all its related components in the upcoming...