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Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed

As part of setting up a replication relationship, Hyper-V Replica transfers the initial VHDs over the network – depending on the size of the VHD, this operation can be time consuming and also impacts your production network. Once initial replication is...

Published Mar 11 2013 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 117 views, 0 comments

Hyper-V Replica Runbooks

System Center 2012 Orchestrator provides a powerful workflow management solution which allows IT administrators to automate different tasks exposed by the platform. At the heart of the Orchestrator is a set of Runbooks which outline the sequence of activities...

Published Feb 20 2013 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 129 views, 0 comments

Hyper-V Replica Kerberos Error

David is one of our Premier Field Engineers and he approached us with an interesting problem where the customer was encountering a Kerberos error when trying to create a replication relationship. On first glance, the setup looked very straight forward...

Published Feb 14 2013 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 137 views, 0 comments

Migrate virtual machines from a VMware environment to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 using a free, simple, standalone tool

Windows Server 2012 is generally available for evaluation and purchase by all customers around the world. Additionally, there is great news for organizations that are looking for a way to migrate virtual machines hosted on VMware vSphere to the Hyper...

Published Sep 18 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 240 views, 0 comments

Introduction to Resource Metering

Hi, I’m Lalithra Fernando, a program manager on the Hyper-V team, working in various areas including clustering and authorization, as well as with our Hyper-V MVPs. In this post, I’ll be talking about resource metering, a new feature in Hyper...

Published Aug 16 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 318 views, 0 comments

Hyper-V Replica Powershell Series: Creating Hyper-V Replica Broker

We have seen multiple queries on the steps required to create the Hyper-V Replica Broker using Powershell, a previous post describes the process but adding more details on the end to end workflow. To create a Hyper-V Replica Broker in a DHCP environment...

Published Aug 15 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 341 views, 0 comments

Types of failover operations in Hyper-V Replica–Part III - Unplanned Failover

In the first two parts of this 3-part series, you learnt about Test Failover (TFO) and Planned Failover (PFO). In this closing part of the series, I will talk about unplanned failover and summarize the differences of these 3. 1. What is Unplanned Failover...

Published Aug 08 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 316 views, 0 comments

Types of failover operations in Hyper-V Replica–Part II - Planned Failover

In the first part of this 3-part series, you learnt about Test Failover. In this part, I will talk about the Planned Failover (PFO). 1. What is Planned Failover? PFO is an operation initiated on the primary VM which allows you to do an e2e validation...

Published Jul 31 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 300 views, 0 comments

Types of failover operations in Hyper-V Replica

If you are wondering “ I have enabled replication and it looks like everything is in progress, but how do I know that I am truly protected ”, then keep reading the next few posts as we walk you through the various types of failover, how and when to use...

Published Jul 25 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 375 views, 0 comments

Hyper-V Replica Powershell Series: Don’t want Replica folder names as GUIDs!

When you enable replication on a virtual machine, the Replica virtual machine files are created under the location specified by you in the Replica server configuration on the Replica side. Under the specified location, the files are created under a folder...

Published Jul 20 2012 by Windows Virtualization Team Blog , 340 views, 0 comments

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