The replication feature Microsoft introduced in Windows Server 2012 provides business continuity. Though no substitute for failover clustering, it's an affordable option. Although many small and ...

Last month we looked at the basics of Hyper-V Replica, including how to configure it, selecting the transport protocol between two servers and setting up a virtual machine (VM) for replication. This ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

EDIT: To be very clear, this is not supported by Microsoft. As indicated by the responses below, this is also not the recommended way of doing things. Meaning if you have the resources available to ...

Backup solutions are more reliable now than they've ever been, but it's still important to have a second data-protection measure in case your backup fails. That's where Hyper-V comes in. As someone ...

First introduced in Windows Server 2012 as an easy-to-configure, virtualization-based disaster recovery (DR) solution, Hyper-V Replica is now an integral part of DR in many businesses, small and large ...

I'm taking a couple weeks off before the busiest part of Microsoft's 2012 kicks into full gear. But never fear: The Microsoft watching will go on while I'm gone. I've asked a few illustrious members ...

Curious about real world experience with Hyper-V Replica as we are just about ready to pull the shrink wrap off it in a test-lab. Nothing against Veeam, but a lot of our accounts are running on 2012 ...

In terms of virtualisation and disaster recovery, there are numerous options available to protect virtual machines that run on Microsoft Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a feature of Windows Server 2008, Windows ...