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Answered Windows 2008 HyperV Replica in Windows 2012 HyperV

  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 AM
     
     
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    Dear Team,

    In our organization  We have more than 20 VM's which is running on Windows 2008 Hyper V.

    Now my organization wants to make Far DR site to another city.They are planning to deploy Windows 2012 in Far DR Site and they also want

    this 20 VM's should replicate in Far DR Site.

    E.g:- somethings happen in DC and all this 20 VM's should be up on Far DR Site within minute.

    How do we make this possible.Pls Help on this.

     

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  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:47 AM
     
     
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    Pls send the reply on this md.alammm@hotmail.com

     
  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:35 PM
     
     
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    Ensure that you will have powerful datalink between the sites: it should be >1Gbps. 

     
  • Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:20 PM
     
     
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    Read this document - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29016

    If you still have questions, port specific questions.

    You will need Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V in both sites.  Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V does not have a replication capability.

    tim

     
  • Friday, November 30, 2012 10:53 AM
     
     
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    Well, Tim is not 100% correct (I`m sorry but its true), since you can achieve this with WS2008 and 3d party software that would allow you to replicate your VMs. Basically, since having a good SAN is a good practice I`d recommend you to consider this option.  
     
  • Friday, November 30, 2012 8:06 PM
     
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    Never said replication couldn't be done with third party tools.  What I DID say was that Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V does not have a replication capability.  If it did have such a capability, I am very surprised that Microsoft calls Hyper-V Replica a new feature of 2012.

    Totally agree that SAN-based replication is possible and a good idea.  So maybe we interpreted the post differently.

    tim