Chapter 8 Hyper-V Replica and Cloud Orchestration

High availability is essential for providing the most resilient infrastructure possible for a Hyper-V environment in order to ensure the availability of virtual machines. However, the ability to provide disaster-recovery services to protect against the loss of an entire site is becoming a high priority for many organizations. Windows Server 2012 introduced a capability to Hyper-V that provides replication from one Hyper-V server to another, independent of any cluster or storage replication capabilities, and this has continued to evolve with each new version and can also integrate with Azure.

This chapter covers the options for providing disaster recovery for services in an organization, and ...

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