Hyper-V Replica Essentials

Ensure business continuity and improve your disaster recovery policy using Hyper-V Replica

Overview

• A practical step-by-step guide that goes beyond theory and focuses on getting hands-on
• Ensure business continuity and faster disaster recovery
• Learn how to deploy a failover cluster and encrypt communication traffic

In Detail

Enterprises need to make sure that their systems are always up and running no matter what happens. Hyper-V Replica is a free disaster recovery tool in Hyper-V 3.0 that creates and maintains copies of virtual machines (VMs). In the event of a catastrophic loss, an administrator can failover to the replica VMs and provide business continuity.

Hyper-V Replica Essentials is a step by step guide to configuring Hyper-V Replica in various deployment scenarios. This book will give you an overview of Hyper-V Replica before taking you through the prerequisites required to properly configure Hyper-V Replica. Then, through a series of practical steps, this book will enable you to take advantage of this highly beneficial disaster recovery tool.

Hyper-V Replica Essentials starts by introducing you to Hyper-V Replica and will help you understand what it does and where you can apply it. We will then move onto learning how to configure a server environment with failover capabilities based on Microsoft Hyper-V and also how to use features including Live Storage Migration. Finally, you learn how to configure Hyper-V Replica authentication, and to troubleshoot problems with Hyper-V Replica as well as solving different types of problems.

What you will learn from this book

• Configure the Server Message Block (SMB) server for file storage
• Install Hyper-V on physical machines
• Set up a failover cluster
• Configure the Hyper-V Replica server
• Set up virtual machines for replication
• Create a certificate template
• Import a certificate template to a Hyper-V host
• Test Hyper-V Replica configuration

Approach

A fast-paced, step-by-step guide to configuring Hyper-V Replica in various deployment scenarios.

Who this book is written for

Hyper-V Replica Essentials is for Windows Server administrators who want to improve their system availability and speed up disaster recovery. You will need experience in Hyper-V deployment because Hyper-V Replica is built in the Hyper-V platform.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing Hyper-V Replica
Chapter 2: Failover Clustering
Chapter 3: Configuring Hyper-V Replica
Chapter 4: Authentication in Hyper-V Replica
Chapter 5: Administrating Hyper-V Replica