Microsoft has released a tool that will help you plan your capacity for Hyper-V Replica. The tool and the documentation for it you can find here.
Tag: Hyper-V Replica
Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed document
This document captures the results from the bandwidth optimization experiments conducted in the Microsoft® Engineering Excellence Center (EEC) lab by using the Riverbed Steelhead appliance WAN optimization devices with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica.
So basically if you use Hyper-V replica across WAN you should use WAN optimizers in order to reduce traffic and bandwidth. You can see the results from the document here.
Disaster Recovery Solution with Orchestrator
Windows Server 2012 has out of the box a disaster recovery solution for virtual machines named Hyper-V Replica. Unfortunately this solution is not automated but luckily you can automate this solution whatever you like with System Center 2012 Orchestrator. Charles Joy from MSFT even offers free runbooks to the community to make that disaster recovery automated. He made two scenarios – one without using the other System Center components and other where he uses SCSM to initiate the failover. Actually the solution is documented with documents and video. You can directly implement the runbooks in your environment or you can change them to fit your needs. It is up to you to make the logic. The solution is pretty fast and most important free if you have Windows Server 2012 and Orchestrator 2012. I’ve seen a solutions for Disaster Recovery that cost a significant amount of money and in the end they are hard to configure, 1 of 3 cases failed during failover and have certain limitations. So I suggest grab this solution from here and make your Disaster Recovery.
KB: Feature and performance optimization of Hyper-V Replica (HVR) in Windows Server 2012
Microsoft published a very useful article on how we can fine-tune Hyper-V Replica if we face performance problems. I suggest if to try changing these registry keys only if you face some performance problems. If everything is working smoothly better not touch them. The article is located here.
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012
Here are 8 new videos from MVA about what Windows Server 2012 will offer:
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Beyond Virtualization with Windows Server "8" (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Beyond Virtualization with Windows Server "8" (Part 2)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – The Power of Many Servers, The Simplicity of One (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – The Power of Many Servers, The Simplicity of One (Part 2)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – Every App, Any Cloud (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – Every App, Any Cloud (Part 2)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” Beta – Modern WorkStyle Enabled (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” Beta – Modern WorkStyle Enabled (Part 2)
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