Automated Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell 3.0 for FREE!

re: Automated Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell 3.0 for FREE!

KeithMayer — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:41:46 GMT

Hi Michal,

We definitely have this feature! :-) Automated failover of a set of VMs from one host to another is provided by our integrated Failover Clustering feature. Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V include a number of high availability features: Live Migration for moving running VMs host-to-host during planned downtime of a host, Failover Clustering for automated failover during unplanned downtime of a host, and Hyper-V Replica as a solution for recovery of site-level disasters to a remote datacenter or DR location. All of these features are provided in Windows Server 2012 Standard edition, Datacenter edition and our completely free Hyper-V Server 2012 product.

In your scenario above, I'd recommend investigating Failover Clustering. With Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012, you can create clusters of up to 64 host servers that provide automated failover for up to 8,000 VMs across that cluster.

You can check-out the steps involved in building a Failover Cluster at the following article location:

blogs.technet.com/.../step-by-step-building-a-free-hyper-v-server-2012-cluster-part-1-of-2.aspx

Hope this helps!

Keith

re: Automated Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell 3.0 for FREE!

michal — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:47:13 GMT

i've been playing around with live migration, replication and other features of hyperv in server 2012. i cannot find a way to setup automated failover. planned failover and failover testing works great... but if the source vm/host goes offline in the middle of the night i want the replica to start up on it's own. unless i'm missing something MS forgot to include this feature. Cant really compete with vmware without it.

re: Automated Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell 3.0 for FREE!

DZoquier — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:07:03 GMT

Thanks for the article. This is just what I was looking for. I will start to implement it tomorrow. Whish me luck and I may have more questions.

re: Automated Disaster Recovery with Hyper-V Replica and PowerShell 3.0 for FREE!

Thuan Soldier — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:50:57 GMT

Great article. It helps me in improving Disaster Recovery for our SharePoint enterprise infrastructure. Many thanks for sharing.

-T.s