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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...