A failed Hyper-V replication setup prompts a PowerShell-based approach to building lightweight, do-it-yourself health monitoring without the cost or complexity of an enterprise-grade tool ...

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 ...

Hyper-V replication failures happen rarely, but their impact can be catastrophic when they do. Know the scenarios that are likely to trigger a replication failure. Over the years, I have developed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data replication and failover vendor Double-Take Software Tuesday unveiled a lineup of products to support the forthcoming Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment. The company made the ...

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 ...

This scenario involves VM's hosted on a WS2012R2 Hyper-V Cluster with Hyper-V Replica. I've always setup my VM's Automatic Stop Action to be "Shutdown the guest OS", since that's the tried and true ...

Veeam Backup & Replication aims to help Hyper-V shops move move up the virtual food chain from dev/test environments into production At the Microsoft TechEd conference this week, Veeam Software ...

Workloads running in Hyper-V will be far more reliable after the release of Windows Server 8 because Microsoft is boosting the ability to replicate mission-critical databases and other applications.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today announced at ...