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Replica Clusters behind a NAT
When a Hyper-V Replica Broker is configured in your DR site to accept replication traffic, Hyper-V along with Failover Clustering intelligently percolates these settings to all the nodes of the...
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What’s new in Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server 2012 R2
18th October 2013 marked the General Availability of Windows Server 2012 R2. The teams have accomplished an amazing set of features in this short release cycle and Brad’s post @...
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Online resize of virtual disks attached to replicating virtual machines
In Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V added the ability to resize the virtual disks attached to a running virtual machine without having to shutdown the virtual machine. In this blog post we will talk...
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Upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V Replica
The TechNet article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn486799.aspx provides detailed guidance on migrating Hyper-V VMs from a Windows Server 2012 deployment to a Windows Server 2012 R2...
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Hyper-V Replica: Extend Replication
With Hyper-V Extend Replication feature in Windows Server 2012 R2, customers can have multiple copies of data to protect them from different outage scenarios. For example, as a customer I might choose...
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Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center Operations...
Continuing from my previous post Monitoring Hyper-V Replica using Systems Center Operations Manager, in this blog post I will walk through some of the things to be taken care of while using System...
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Using data deduplication with Hyper-V Replica for storage savings
Protection of data has always been a priority for customers, and disaster recovery allows the protection of data with better restore times and lower data loss at the time of failover. However, as with...
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Measuring Replication Health in a cluster
As part of running a mini-scale run in my lab, I had to frequently monitor the replication health and also note down the replication statistics. The statistics is available by by right clicking on the...
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Network Recommendations for a Hyper-V Cluster in Windows Server 2012
We recently published a TechNet document http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn550728.aspx which provides guidance on configuring your network for a Hyper-V Cluster in Windows Server 2012.A snip of...
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Update: Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica
In May 2013, we released the first version of the Capacity Planner for Hyper-V Replica on Windows Server 2012. It allowed administrators to plan their Hyper-V Replica deployments based on the workload,...
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Hyper-V Replica debugging: Why are very large log files generated?
Quite a few customers have reached out to us with this question, and you can even see a few posts around this on the TechNet Forums. The query comes in various forms:“My log file size was in the MBs...
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Error 0x80090303 when enabling replication
When trying to enable replication on one of my VMs in my lab setup, I encountered the following error – Hyper-V failed to authenticate the Replica server <server name> using Kerberos...
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Hyper-V Replica & Proxy Servers on primary site
I was tinkering around with my lab setup which consists of a domain, proxy server, primary and replica servers. There are some gotchas when it comes to Hyper-V Replica and proxy servers and I realized...
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Hyper-V Replica Certificate based authentication and Proxy servers
Continuing from where we left off, I have a small lab deployment which consists of a AD, DNS, Proxy server (Forefront TMG 2010 on WS 2008 R2 SP1), primary servers and replica servers. When the primary...
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Backup of a Replica VM
This blog post covers the scenarios and motivations that drive the backup of a Replica VM, and product guidance to administrators.Why backup a Replica VM?Ever since the advent of Hyper-V Replica in...
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Optimizing Hyper-V Replica HTTPS traffic using Riverbed SteelHead
Hyper-V Replica support both Kerberos based authentication and certificate based authentication – the former sends the replication traffic between the two servers/sites over HTTP while the latter sends...
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TechEd North America 2014
This year TechEd North America is happening between 12 May and 15 May, at Houston. There are some interesting sessions around Backup and Disaster Recovery – so I would highly encourage you all to...
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Excluding virtual disks in Hyper-V Replica
Since its introduction in Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V Replica has provided a way for users to exclude specific virtual disks from being replicated. This option is rarely exercised but can have a...
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Application consistent recovery points with Windows Server 2008/2003 guest OS
I recently had a conversation with a customer around a very interesting problem, and the insights that were gained there are worth sharing. The issue was about VSS errors popping up in the guest event...
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Disaster Recovery to Microsoft Azure – Part 1
Drum roll please! We are super excited to announce the availability of the preview bits of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) which enables you to replicate Hyper-V VMs to Microsoft Azure for business...
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