Although many small and midsize businesses run their workloads on virtualized servers, they haven't been able to take advantage of the fault tolerant capabilities of virtualization such as failover ...

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First introduced in Windows Server 2012 as an easy-to-configure, virtualization-based disaster recovery (DR) solution, Hyper-V Replica is now an integral part of DR in many businesses, small and large ...

I'm taking a couple weeks off before the busiest part of Microsoft's 2012 kicks into full gear. But never fear: The Microsoft watching will go on while I'm gone. I've asked a few illustrious members ...

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EDIT: To be very clear, this is not supported by Microsoft. As indicated by the responses below, this is also not the recommended way of doing things. Meaning if you have the resources available to ...

I would like to upgrade a HyperV replica host machine that is in use which requires it to be powered down, is this going to horribly break all the replication or will it resume seamlessly? I would ...

In terms of virtualisation and disaster recovery, there are numerous options available to protect virtual machines that run on Microsoft Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a feature of Windows Server 2008, Windows ...

The replication feature Microsoft introduced in Windows Server 2012 provides business continuity. Though no substitute for failover clustering, it's an affordable option. Although many small and ...