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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

Summary


It's been an interesting chapter that covered the advantages of the Hyper-V Replica feature. Hyper-V Replica is a functionality introduced in the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V role, where an organization can set a virtual machine running on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to replicate its configuration and data files to another Hyper-V Replica server placed in a same or different part of the network.

Hyper-V Replica gives a handy way to organizations to build the disaster recovery of their critical virtual workload running in their primary datacenter. Hyper-V Replica can be set on an individual virtual machine or can also be set for all the virtual machines running on the same Hyper-V server. Hyper-V Replica is a free and default feature available in both Hyper-V standalone and clustered instances.

In this chapter we were first introduced to Hyper-V Replica, its technical overview, configuring Hyper-V Replica, and last but not the least, the monitoring aspect of Hyper-V Replica. All this...