Chapter 12
Hyper-V Replica
The virtualization world was rocked when Microsoft announced Hyper-V Replica (HVR) at the Worldwide Partner Conference in 2011. Not only was it the very first feature of Windows Server 2012 that was announced, but it offered something that nothing else did: host-based replication in the hypervisor at no extra cost. This means that a Hyper-V customer can use Hyper-V Replica to replicate running virtual machines using the free Hyper-V Server 2012, and Hyper-V on Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2012. HVR was designed to abstract hardware and to work on commercial broadband. These factors alone made it attractive to a number of audiences. Now you will read why Hyper-V was declared a killer feature.
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