{"id":11334,"date":"2011-07-20T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11334"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:45:00","slug":"first-official-showing-of-windows-server-8-hyper-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11334","title":{"rendered":"First Official Showing of Windows Server \u201c8\u201d Hyper-V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odds are you\u2019ve already read about this on Ben Armstrong\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2011\/07\/18\/first-official-information-about-hyper-v-in-windows-server-8.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> (I\u2019ve been engaged on an intense deployment project with little time to keep the blog up to date), but it\u2019s worth me posting just in case.&#160; Microsoft showed off Windows Server 8 (2012? MSFT have a thing against the number 13 so I doubt it will be Windows Server 2013) for the first time and featured Hyper-V.&#160; Hyper-V Replica was on show, allowing a VM to be replicated to another (possibly remote) Hyper-V host.<\/p>\n<p>The video is <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalwpc.com\/Videos\/AllVideos\/Permalink\/3cb3788c-5c47-4b9e-987c-0dec4194058b\/#fbid=heZYHzinl21\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> and you can jump to around the 37 minute mark to start hearing about Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>It seems we have two authentication methods for the replication:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HTTP aka Windows authentication: Probably for hosts inside the same forest.<\/li>\n<li>HTTPS aka certificates: Maybe for hosts in different forests?&#160; Could be great for replicating to a \u201cpublic cloud\u201d?&#160; Pure guessing.&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>File this under \u201cwe\u2019ll learn more at\/after the Build Conference in September\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting screen shot is this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool: we can optionally keep a history of replicas!&#160; Maybe a VM\u2019s OS or application corrupts in site A but we can restore a previous version in site B before the corruption started?&#160; And it <em>appears<\/em> to allow us to use VSS to take snaps every X hours to get consistent replicas.&#160; That\u2019s critical for things like Exchange or SQL Server.<\/p>\n<p>A big challenge for replication is getting that first big block of data over the WAN.&#160; MSFT has thought of that, as you can see below.&#160; We can schedule it for out of hours, export to removable media and import on the destination host, or use backup\/restore (apparently).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just a simple wizard to get something complex (under the hood) to work.&#160; And it\u2019s software based so it should work with any Hyper-V supported hardware.<\/p>\n<p>This was a very early build on show at WPC11 so things are subject to change.&#160; We\u2019ll learn more, I guess, at\/after the Build conference.&#160; Until then, everything is speculation so don\u2019t plan your deployments until at least the RC release next year!<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Woolsey says in the video that this will be an alternative to those very expensive hardware replication mechanisms that are the only option right now.&#160; Yup.&#160; Also an alternative to the vTax alternative by VMware because Hyper-V Replica will be a built-in feature at no extra cost.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:dcd1932e-6f70-4463-bb78-67e56aad0d10\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+8\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 8<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/DR\" rel=\"tag\">DR<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds are you\u2019ve already read about this on Ben Armstrong\u2019s blog (I\u2019ve been engaged on an intense deployment project with little time to keep the blog up to date), but it\u2019s worth me posting just in case.&#160; Microsoft showed off Windows Server 8 (2012? 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