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

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
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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

Technical overview of the Hyper-V Replica feature


An organization can deploy Hyper-V Replica as a virtual machine replication solution for replicating all the VM-related data and changes to its secondary computing site or a disaster recovery site. Hyper-V Replica can use the normal LAN or WAN medium for transmitting this replication data from one site to another. A functional Hyper-V Replica solution between two different sites will look like the following diagram:

In this section we will cover the core components of Hyper-V Replica, such as the Hyper-V Replica "Replication Engine", change tracking, and network module. All these components work together to make Hyper-V virtual machine replication happen, with all the luxuries and facilities that Hyper-V Replica provides.

Replication Engine

Replication Engine is the heart of the Hyper-V Replica feature. Among the many other responsibilities of Replication Engine, its main responsibility is to ensure that the configured virtual machines and...