Chapter 13. Hyper-V Replica

Hyper-V Replica is a new feature of Windows Server 2012 that provides asynchronous replication of virtual machines between two Hyper-V hosts. Hyper-V Replica is easy to configure and does not require either shared storage or any particular storage hardware. Any server workload that can be virtualized in Hyper-V can be replicated.

Replication works over any ordinary IP-based network, and the replicated data can be encrypted during transmission. Hyper-V Replica works with standalone servers, failover clusters, or a mixture of both. The servers can be physically co-located or widely separated geographically. The physical servers do not need to be in the same domain, or even joined to any domain at all.

In this section, Mark ...

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